César J. Ayala Professor Department of Sociology-UCLA 284 Haines Hall Los Angeles, CA  90095-1551 tel: 310-267-4306 fax:310-206-9838 EMAIL: cjayala@soc.ucla.edu

Education

Major Interests

Comparative Historical Sociology, Economy and Society, Sociology of Latin America and the Caribbean

Books

César J. Ayala and José Bolívar. Battleship Vieques: Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2011). Designated an Outstanding Academic Title by the journal Choice (American Library Association).

César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe. Puerto Rico en el siglo norteamericano: su historia desde 1898 [ translated by Aurora Lauzardo] (San Juan: Ediciones Callejón, 2011).

César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabe (University of Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).

César J. Ayala. American Sugar Kingdom: the Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1999) –Selected by the journal Choice as an “Outstanding Academic Title.”

Recent Work

 

César J. Ayala and Rick Baldoz. "Citizenship and Border-Making in the American Colonial Empire: Puerto Rico and the Philippines." This co-authored article will appear in the book Formations of U.S. Colonialism edited by Julian Go and Aloysha Goldstein (Duke UP).

César J. Ayala, "American Sugar Kingdom," in Stephan Palmié and Francisco Scarano, The Caribbean: a History of the Region and its Peoples (Chicago: The University of Chicago press, 2011).

César J. Ayala. "Local Capital Formation and Development Banking in Puerto Rico, 1942-2007." In Guy Pierre, ed., Histoire économique de la Caraïbe, (1880-1950) . Port Au Prince: Éditions de l'Université d'État d'Haïti, 2011 .

César Ayala, "La formación de capital local el Puerto Rico, 1947 al presente." Revista de Ciencias Sociales (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 18 (2008): 104-149.

Jennifer McCormick and César Ayala. 2007. “ Felícita ‘La Prieta' Méndez and the End of Latino Segregation in California ." Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 19(2): 13-35.

César Ayala and José Bolívar. 2006. "The Cold War and the Second Expropriations of the Navy in Vieques" Centro, Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 18(1): 3-27.

César Ayala and Viviana Carro. 2005." Expropiations and Displacement of Civilians in Vieques, 1940-1950. " In Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule: Political Persecution and the Quest for Human Rights , edited by R. Bosque Pérez and J. Colón Morera (Forthcoming, S.U.N.Y. Press, May 2005).

Selected Publications in Journals

César Ayala and José Bolívar. 2004. " Entre dos aguas: economía, sociedad, e intervención estatal en Vieques, 1942-1948. " Revista de Ciencias Sociales , San Juan, Puerto Rico (Invierno 2004): 52-79.

César Ayala. 2003.“ Recent works on Vieques, Colonialism, and Fishermen .” Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 15(1) (Spring ): 3-16.

César Ayala and Laird Bergad. 2002. “ Rural Puerto Rico during the Early Twentieth Century Reconsidered: Land and Society, 1899-1915 .” Latin American Research Review (37) 2 (April 2002): 65-99.

César Ayala.2001. "Del latifundio azucarero al latifundio militar: las expropiaciones de la marina en la década del cuarenta ." Revista de Ciencias Sociales (University of Puerto Rico) 10 (January, 2001): 1-33.

César Ayala. 2001. " From Sugar Plantations to Military Bases: the U.S. Navy's Expropriations in Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1940-45 ." Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies 13(1) (Spring 2001): 22-44.

1996. “ The decline of the Plantation Economy and the Puerto Rican Migration of the 1950s .” Latino Studies Journal vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter, 1996): 61-90.

1995. " Social and Economic Aspects of Sugar Production in Cuba, 1880-1930, " Latin American Research Review , vol. 30, no. 1, (1995): 95-124.

1995. " Capitalism in Colonial Puerto Rico: A Review Essay ," Caribbean Studies , vol. 26, no. 3-4 (June, 1995): 392-402.

1994. "Finance Capital vs. Managerial Control in a Colonial Sphere: United States Agribusiness Corporations in Puerto Rico, 1898-1934,"   Research in Political Economy , vol. 14 (Fall of 1994): 195-220.

1994, “ La nueva plantación Caribeña: 1898-1934 ,” Op. Cit. (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, University of Puerto Rico),no. 8., (Fall 1994):  123-165.

1989. Ayala, César J. 1989. " Theories of Big Business in American Society ." Critical Sociology , vol 16., no. 2-3, (Summer-Fall, 1989): 92-120.