Ramon Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of "The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century "(2002), "Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York "(2001), and "Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism "(1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.