UCLA Political Science Faculty WELCOME

Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor

3272 Bunche Hall
Box 951472
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1472
Office Phone: (310) 825-6629
Email: msawyer@polisci.ucla.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background:

• 1999 Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago
• 1996 M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago
• 1994 B.A., Political Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Past Courses and Syllabi:

• POL SCI 119D/AFRO-AM C101, Winter 2000 African American Political Thought
• POL SCI 143B, Spring 2000 Subnational Government: Government of American Cities
• POL SCI 259/AFRO-AM C201, Spring 2000 Politics of the African Diaspora

Published Works

• "Cuban Exceptionalism: Group Based Hierarchy and the Dynamics of Patriotism in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba" with Pe±a and Sidanius The Dubois Review
• "Cuban Exceptionalism: Group Based Hierarchy and the Dynamics of Patriotism in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba." with Yesilernis Peña and James Sidanius The Dubois Review Vol.1, No.1.pgs.93-114.
• "Contentious Pluralism: The Public Sphere and Democracy." with Guidry Perspectives on Politics. Volume 1, Number 2, June 2003.
• "The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration by Carol Swain." Perspectives on Politics
• "Inclusionary Discrimination: Pigmentocracy and Patriotism in the Dominican Republic" with Sidanius, and Pe±a, Journal of Political Psychology (Fall 2001).
• "'Racial Democracy' in the Americas: A Latin and North American Comparison." with Peña and Sidanius Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (Forthcoming).
• "What We Can Learn From Cuba: Comparative Perspectives on the African American Experience."SOULS Spring 2003 (5.2)
• "Unlocking the Official Story: Comparing the Cuban RevolutionÆs Approach to Race and Gender" UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs Winter 2001.
• "A Book Review: Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Revolution" Palara: Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association Fall 2000, Number 4:108-11.

Working Papers

• "Du Bois' Double Consciousness versus Latin America Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa and Negritude" Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon, March 2003.
• 'Talking Dirty After Dark': Themes of Sexuality In Black Ideology (see attached)

Fellowships

• Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

In the Media

• Chronicle of Higher Education, "Yale Seeks 'Next Generation' of Stars in Black Studies" 2/22/2002

My Links:

Music:

• Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
• Vinx

Cuba:

• Afro Cuba Web
• Granma (Newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party)
• Cuban Studies Program Tulane

News and Groups:

• Politically Black
• Track and Field News
• This American Life
• The Black Radical Congress
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists
• Net Noir
• Black Planet
• Campaign Against Racism and Fascism
• National Public Radio
• The Chicago Tribune

Departments and Research:

• Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture
• University of Illinois African American Studies Research Program
• University of Texas at Austin Diaspora Program

Hobbies:

• Ducati USA
• Ferrari Official Web Site
• Marvel Comics

Friend's Sites:

• Urban Social and Cultural Events
• News (Karen May)
• Purchase Auto Parts

Some Images:

Anti-US billboard in Havana

Children going to school, Havana

My dog, Kalil

University of Havana

On the beach

visits since 10 May, 2004