Background
Amílcar Antonio Barreto was born on November 22, 1965, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Amílcar Barreto, a physician, and Eloina Marquez Barreto, a homemaker.
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, United States
Barreto received a Juris Doctor in 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science in 1995 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
In 1988, Barreto received a Bachelor of Arts from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico.
(For decades the United States territory of Puerto Rico an...)
For decades the United States territory of Puerto Rico and the Canadian province of Quebec have been riveted by the politics of nationalism, the question of their final status, and the protection of their local languages. In the name of cultural defense, the legislatures in San Juan and Quebec City have passed several laws focusing on protecting the vernacular. Barreto explores these two cases and challenges some general preconceived notions about nationalist movements.
https://www.amazon.com/Language-Elites-State-Nationalism-Puerto/dp/0275961834/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Language%2C+Elites%2C+and+the+State%3A+Nationalism+in+Puerto+Rico+and+Quebec&qid=1597425906&sr=8-1
1998
(This is the first book in English to analyze the controve...)
This is the first book in English to analyze the controversial language policies passed by the Puerto Rican government in the 1990s. It is also the first to explore the connections between language and cultural identity and politics on the Caribbean island.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MVMNLJ6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2001
(In this analysis of the dispute over the United States Na...)
In this analysis of the dispute over the United States Navy's bombing range in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Amílcar Barreto looks at the political fallout from the accidental killing of a civilian in 1999, including its impact on Puerto Rican nationalism and ethnic mobilization. In so doing, he finds in the Vieques crisis a metaphor for a larger set of Puerto Rican crises and conflicts.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813024722/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
2002
(This book contends that there is a fundamental logic unde...)
This book contends that there is a fundamental logic underlying the participation of non-elites in the nationalist enterprise. In order to understand this logic we must cast aside the standard myopia ingrained in most Rational Choice analysis.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0230618642/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
2009
(The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the...)
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States has opened a new chapter in the country's long and often tortured history of inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations. Many relished in the inauguration of the country's first African American president - an event foreseen by another White House aspirant, Senator Robert Kennedy, four decades earlier.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ID6UP3A/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2013
Amílcar Antonio Barreto was born on November 22, 1965, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Amílcar Barreto, a physician, and Eloina Marquez Barreto, a homemaker.
In 1988, Barreto received a Bachelor of Arts from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico. He also received a Juris Doctor in 1993 and a Doctor of Philosophy in political science in 1995 from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
From 1991 to 1993, Barreto worked as a lecturer of political science at the University at Buffalo. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as an assistant professor of political science at Alfred State College. In 1996, Barreto became an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, where he later also held a number of other positions. Currently, he is a Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies at the same university. He also holds a joint appointment with the International Affairs program and the Department of Political Science. Professor Barreto specializes in nationalism & ethnic politics, citizenship and race. Most of his work has focused on Puerto Rico and Latinos in the United States.
His most recent books are The Politics of Language in Puerto Rico: Revisited and American Identity in the Age of Obama. Among his most recent articles are "Bifurcating American Identity: Partisanship, Sexual Orientation, and the 2016 Presidential Election" Politics, Groups and Identities, "Hierarchies of Belonging: Intersecting Race, Ethnicity, and Territoriality in the Construction of US Citizenship" Citizenship Studies, and "American Identity, Congress and the Puerto Rico Statehood Debate" Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism.
(In this analysis of the dispute over the United States Na...)
2002(For decades the United States territory of Puerto Rico an...)
1998(The election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the...)
2013(This is the first book in English to analyze the controve...)
2001(This book contends that there is a fundamental logic unde...)
2009Barreto does his research on the divergent strategies employed by elites and followers in nationalist movements.
Barreto is a member of the American Political Science Association, Latin-American Studies Association, Puerto Rican Studies Association.