Regine Jackson
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 2001

Research Interests

Racial and ethnic identity; American immigration; Urban ethnography; Haitian diaspora; Black subjectivity; Migration narratives

Publications

• “Haitians in Boston: New Blacks in an Old Immigrant City” in H. Silver, ed. Yankee Cities Revisited: New Immigrants Transforming New England (forthcoming). 
• “Beyond Social Distancing: Intermarriage among Black Americans in Boston” in Y. Shaw-Taylor and S. Tuch, eds. The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Families in the United States (forthcoming).
• The Crisis of Geography in Georges Woke up Laughing in The Journal of Haitian Studies (Spring 2003).
• Haitians and African-Americans: A Legacy of Tragedy and Hope in Wadabagei  (Summer/Fall 2003).
• Haiti and the French-Speaking Caribbean in James Ciment, ed., Encyclopedia of American Immigration, volume 3. (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2000).
• Caribbean Immigrants and the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: Limits of the Assimilation Perspective in African-American Research Perspectives (Spring 1997).

Public scholarship, Lectures, etc.

• Black Immigrants in the New Urban Landscape: The Case of Haitians in Boston with commentators Milton Vickerman and Alex Stepick (Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC – May 2005).   
• Columnist, The Boston Haitian Reporter (September 2004 – present).

Panelist

• The Haitian Diaspora in Boston (Old South Meeting House – Boston, MA: June 2004).  Sponsored by the Lakou Association and the Ford Hall Forum.

Courses

Graduate

• Theorizing Diaspora
• Racing Research, Researching Race: A Peer Review/ Writing Workshop
• The Interview Society

Undergraduate

• American Identities
• The Other African Americans
• Challenges to American Cultural Pluralism
• A Nation of Immigrants