LATINO COMMUNITY SERVICE
Tony Affigne's leadership in the Latino community spans the past three decades. Today he's an elected executive board member for the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee (RILPAC) and RI Latino Civic Fund (RILCF). In 1994 he helped organize the state's Desfile Puertorriqueño de Rhode Island (Puerto Rican Parade). In the wider Providence community he's been active in PACE (People Acting through Community Effort), the Puerto Rican Political Action Committee (PRPAC), and the Mount Hope Neighborhood Association. During the Cianci and Paolino administrations, he was appointed to advisory commissions for school desegregation, urban zoning, and federal community development. In 1992 he co-founded the Green Party of Rhode Island (Partido Verde de Rhode Island), and has served on the Green Party's national and international committees.
First Latino candidate
In 1982 Affigne was Rhode Island's first-ever Latino political candidate, with an independent campaign for Providence City Council. Four years later, in the elections of 1986, he became the state's first-ever Latino to run for statewide office, as the Citizens Party nominee for Governor.
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Tony Affigne
Professor
Education
PhD, Brown University
MPA, University of Rhode Island
AB, Brown University
Summary Biography
 Professor Anthony D. Affigne has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science since 1991, and served as department chair from 2004-2008. He is also a visiting professor of ethnic studies at Brown University. In 1995 Affigne was the founding director of Providence College's Program in Black Studies.
LULAC President Rosa Rosales visits Providence, delivers lecture at Brown University
For 2008's Semana Chicana at Brown University, the keynote speech was delivered by Rosa Rosales, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Hispanic civil rights organization.
Before her Brown lecture, Sra. Rosales paid a visit to Governor Donald Carcieri's policy staff, where she condemned Carcieri's recent executive order "deputizing" state police and other state employees, to identify and report undocumented immigrants.
Carcieri's order, she said, would create fear among legal as well as undocumented Hispanic immigrants, and would legitimize racial profiling by police.
Professor Tony Affigne, chair of  political science at Providence College and visiting professor of ethnic studies at Brown, introduced Sra. Rosales at Brown, calling her "one of the country's most dedicated and effective Latina leaders."
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Teaching Experience
Since 1981 Dr. Affigne has taught resumed education adults—including new citizens from Asia, Latin America, and Africa—and traditional undergraduates at public, private, and Catholic colleges. He was previously a teacher-administrator at the Urban Educational Center (Rhode Island College), and taught politics at Stonehill College. His Providence College courses include political science, Black studies, and environmental studies. At Brown he teaches a Latino politics seminar.
Specialist in racial and ethnic politics
With more than 30 scholarly papers, articles and chapters, for which he is sole or joint author, Dr. Affigne's research is found in several fields. In his work on racial and ethnic politics, he examines Latino political behavior and history, postcolonial racial systems, and community politics in U.S. cities. For example, he was symposium organizer and lead writer for the "Latino Politics in the United States" special series in PS: Political Science and Politics (2000). Dr. Affigne is currently writing papers on blackness in Latino politics (negrura en política), and completing a book manuscript entitled Race and Politics in the America.
Political ecology
After the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, his research analyzed the disaster's impact on ecological politics in Sweden, and the transformation of party systems in Scandinavia. This work was published in Europe in Green Politics One (Wolfgang Rüdig, Ed., Edinburgh 1990). In 2002 he was invited to join a small group of environmental politics specialists from ten countries—including Vandana Shiva, Robyn Eckersley, Benoît Rehoux, Wolfgang Rüdig, and others—as associate editor for the International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, edited by Gene Frankland and John Barry (Routledge: London). He has served as National Committee member for the Green Party of the United States, and from 2001-2004, Affigne represented the U.S. party at global Green meetings in Ottawa, Canberra, Santo Domingo, and Rome.
Leadership in the political science discipline
From 2004-2007 Affigne served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, the profession's century-old, 15,000 member learned society. For two of those years he served as Treasurer, responsible for the Association's $30 million endowment and $5 million annual budget. In 1995 Affigne was co-founder and first elected co-president, for the political science subfield on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. He has chaired the Latino Scholarship Fund and served on APSA's annual meeting program committee for 1996, 2002, and 2008. For next year's national convention in Boston, he'll organize the division on Teaching and Learning in Political Science.
Spring 2008 Courses
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| PSC 416 |
001 |
Race and Politics in the Americas |
TR 1:00-
2:15 |
American Field, Comparative Field |
| PSC 488 |
002 |
Ecological Crisis, Political Response |
W 1:00-3:45 |
Capstone Seminar |
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| Brown University |
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| ETHN 1890A |
Seminar: Latino Politics in the U.S. |
T 4:00-6:20 |
Graduate, Undergraduate |
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