Geoffrey Edmund Fox

GEF 2001

Photo 2001

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Publications:

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Books

Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity. New York: Birch Lane Press, 1996; University of Arizona Press, 1997 (paperback). Reviews: Washington Post, Booklist, The Latino Review of Books, and others. University of Arizona Press Best Seller list. Provided title and framework for 6-program nationwide radio series, "Hispanic Nation: Made in the U.S.A.," October 1998.

The Land and People of Venezuela. New York: HarperCollins. 1991. Selection of the New York Public Library, Books for the Teenage.

The Land and People of Argentina. New York: J. B. Lippincott (HarperCollins), 1990. Selected for list of Notable Books of 1990 by the Children's Book Council.

Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Critical Commentary. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.

Welcome to My Contri. New York: Hudson View Press, 1988, reissued by Lintel, 1991. Short stories. Reviews: The New York Times Book Review, In These Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, etc.

Working-Class Émigrés from Cuba. Palo Alto: R&E Research Publications, 1979.

Report of the Chicago Commission of Inquiry to Save Lives in Chile. Chicago, 1974, co-author

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Book chapters

Race and Class In Contemporary Cuba. In Cuban Communism edited by Irving Louis Horowitz. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1981

Race, sex and revolution in Cuba. In Interracial Marriage, edited by I. R. Stuart and L. E. Abt. New York: Grossman, 1973

Honor, Shame and Women's Liberation in Cuba: The Views of Working-Class Émigré Men. Female and Male in Latin America, edited by Ann Pescatello. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973

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Monographs

Hispanic Organizers and Business Agents in the New York Apparel Industries. New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University (Occasional Paper No. 43), 1984

Organizing the New Immigrants: The Hispanic Trade Unionists' Perspective. New York Research Program in Inter-American Affairs, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University (Occasional Paper No. 40), 1983

Liberty and People: Ideological Analysis of the Political Writings of Simón Bolívar. Prepared for the Primera Bienal Internacional de Ensayo "Simón Bolívar" (Caracas), 1983

Holland American Cruises. Report, Social and Political Conditions in the Caribbean, 1982

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Articles, essays and reviews

'Historic reversal' (Bombs & ballots in Spain) -- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mar. 16, 2004

Series on careers for Hispanics in Monster.com, February-December 2004:
New Job Opportunities

Border Patrol Jobs
Legal Careers
Nonprofit Careers
Break into Broadcasting
Interview Etiquette
A Little Support

'Minority Groups' Have Outgrown Their Labels. Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2003

One Tumultuous Year on the National Executive Board. Your Union, September 2002

"About to Burst Free." Review of James D. Cockcroft, Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History. In Monthly Review, volume 4, no. 52 (September 2000)

Moonbeams and Rectangles. Linnaean Street, Summer 2000

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, by Jonathan Kozol. Solidarity (rev), Jan/Feb 1996

For labor & its allies: Stakes are high in six-month strike of two Detroit newspapers. Between the Lines, February 1996

Cities of the Americas in the Information Age: Power from the Barrel of a Videocam. Response to Thomas Angotti, Christine Boyer and Saskia Sassen. Trans Telesymposium, December 2000

Languages Don't Bind People. Newsday, December 18, 1995

Braving a New World: How Writers Use the Emerging Technology. American Writer, fall 1994

Prime time: Latin American 'soaps' strike back. New Internationalist, January 1992

Mermaids and Other Fetishes: Images of Latin America. Translating Latin America: Culture as Text. Translation Perspectives VI: 135-144 (Revision of 1989 essay of same title, below), 1991

Marketing soaps: Telenovelas slip into prime time. Development Forum, September-October 1991

Small Triumphs: A Week in the Slums of Lima. CARE Annual Report, 1990

A hardware store in barrio José Félix Rivas (micro-entrepreneurs in Caracas). Development Forum, July-August 1990

Spirited Córdoba's Riches: Argentina's second city is a repository of colonial architecture. The New York Times (Travel Section), Sunday, March 11, 1990

Argentina: Putting the 'Perón' Back In (campaign of Carlos Saúl Menem). NACLA Report on the Americas, Nov/Dec 1989

Mermaids and Other Fetishes: Images of Latin America. Central Park 15, spring 1989

The Fool's Progress, by Edward Abbey. (rev) The Village Voice Literary Supplement, Jan. 31, 1989

The Portable Lower East Side: Latin Americans in NYC. (rev) The Village Voice Literary Supplement, October 1988

Fiction and Politics: Interview with Ernesto Sabato. Threepenny Review, winter 1988

Hispanic Communities in the United States (review essay), Latin American Research Review xxiii, 3 (fall 1988): 227-237

Come Sunday, by Bradford Morrow. The Village Voice (rev), July 5, 1988

Imagining Argentina, by Lawrence Thornton. Keeping the spirits of resistance alive. In These Times (rev), March 16, 1988

The Stars at Noon, by Denis Johnson. In These Times, February 25-March, 1987

Never again? Argentina reconstructs. The Nation, May 24, 1986

Hispanic attitudes will alter politics. In These Times, October 9-15, 1985

Research Notes (monthly column, reviews of books and studies on Hispanics) Hispanic Monitor, Jan 1984- Apr 1985

Improper Conduct (film). Cuba Times (rev), June 1984

Havana: U.S. minorities meet far from home, Hispanic Monitor, December 1984

Philadelphia: journalists and media analysts critique coverage of Latin America, Hispanic Monitor, November 1984

Lawrence, Mass.: press, city blamed for ethnic tensions, Hispanic Monitor, October 1984

Differences overshadow agreements among Hispanic delegates, Hispanic Monitor, September 1984

New York: frustrations of Hispanic garment unionists, Hispanic Monitor, September 1984

From Immigrant Labor to Transnational Working Class. Contemporary Sociology (rev), June 1984

The nationalist roots of Mexican-American politics, Hispanic Monitor, May 1984

"Model" Costa Rica: class war in the Latin Switzerland. The Nation, January 28, 1984: 94-95

Lucha y decepción del Libertador (on Simón Bolívar), Areíto, December 1983:22-25

The Lone Ranger (on Edén Pastora, Nicaragua), The Nation, November 26, 1983: 525

Literacy race. (Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba) The Nation, May 7, 1983: 562

U.S.-Cuban relations: a chronology of important events. Cuba Update, October 1982

Criminal and civil law in Cuba: an introduction. Cuba Update, March 1982

Men of Wajda (review essay on films Man of Iron and Man of Marble, by Andrzej Wajda), Film Criticism, fall 1981

Inferior status The Nation, September 5, 1981

The many faces of Eva (biographies of Eva Perón). In These Times, Aug. 27-Sep. 2, 1981

"Man of Marble," film directed by Andrzej Wajda. In These Times, April 1-7, 1981 (review)

The U.S. press and the Cuban exodus. Cuba Update, fall 1980

The Technological Conscience, by Manfred Stanley (review). Contemporary Sociology 1980

Latin American Women: Historical Perspectives, ed. Asunción Lavrin. Américas, v. 32, n. 3, March 1980 (review)

Discovery: Renzo de Felice on Fascism. Theory & Society January 1978 (review)

The Yugoslavs, by Dusko Doder. Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, July 23, 1978 (review)

Hidden Terrors, by J. Langguth. Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, June 25, 1978 (review)

Cuban Workers in Exile. TransAction, 8, 11, September 1971

El cambio social y las estructuras políticas: hacia un modelo teórico. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1967

An Industrial Classification for Developing Economies: Review of the Literature on 'Situs'. Agora 1965

Forging the Conscience of a Race. Comment (Harvard), May 1962

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Fiction & vignettes

From a Trolley Stop in Amsterdam, Ink Pot Special Edition 2004

Stairways. Small Spiral Notebook, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter 2004

The Gazi, Chapter 1 of A Gift for the Sultan. Copperfield Review, Spring 2003

Courbet And The Red Virgin (April 1871): A short story in the form of a screenplay, in The Copperfield Review, Summer 2001 (click on "Fiction")

Melliflua and the Fauns, Web del Sol's In Posse, Spring 2001 -- A fable about how a pre-teen girl solves her problems with some hairy, horny boys; inspired by a statue in the Gabinetto Segreto ("Secret Cabinet") of the Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Bravo, Scrittore! in Linnaean Street, Spring 2001

A lua no ceu da baía, in Exquisite Corpse, Summer 2000

Zen Garden. The Threepenny Review, spring 1999

On a Page from Rilke. Looking Glass 1994

The Fall of Randall Smullyan. Vigil Anti No. 4, Vigil 9, 1993

Tidbinbilla. Central Park, spring 1992

*Welcome to My Contri. Fiction International, fall 1988

*Popo. Central Park, spring 1988

**Dancing with Lucha and The Lair, Yellow Silk #25, winter 1987

*Valencia Afternoon. West Wind Review, spring 1987

*Incident on Mother's Day. Central Park, fall 1986

Here's One Union That's Going All the Way. Labor Notes, June 19, 1980

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*Included in book, Welcome to My Contri

** Reprinted in anthology,Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters. New York: Harmony Books, 1990.

Teaching
adjunct
1985-2002. New York University
1996. Wayne State University
1992, 1980. New School for Social Research
1988-89. Roosevelt High School, Bronx, NY
1982-84. Cornell University Labor Liberal Arts
1982. Boricua College
1980-83. Empire State Labor College
1980-81. Montclair State College
1966-67. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras
full-time

1977-79. St. John's U./College of St. Benedict, MN
1976-77. Ohio Wesleyan University
1970-75. University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

Other academic

1998-99. Lehman College, CUNY.  School-College Articulation
1997-98. Hostos Community College, CUNY. Director of Educational Technology

1995-96. Wayne State University, Detroit. Director of Publications, CULMA

Other professional
2002. Capacity Project Report: Fighting AIDS in the 21st Century

2000-2002. Gateway Institute. Annual reports; Student literary journal Gateway Voices
2001. 1st Rochdale Energy Cooperative. Editor, Monthly newsletter
1991, 1989. NACLA Report on the Americas. Guest editor
1981-83. Center for Cuban Studies, New York. Associate editor, Cuba Update

1994-95. New York City Commission on Human Rights. Director of Communications
1984-94. Abrapalabra Translations.Sole proprietor
1982-83. Hispanic Monitor (monthly newsletter). Executive editor

1966-67. Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Puerto Rico. Research project supervisor, "Social Change in Puerto Rico"

1965. Casa Central, settlement house, Chicago. Community organizer
1963-64. Acción en Venezuela, Caracas. Community development worker
Education

1975. Northwestern University, Ph.D., sociology
1963. Harvard, B.A., Government