Author: Roy S. Bryce-Laporte
Alternate names: Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte
Born: September 7,1933
Died: July 31, 2012
Bio: **Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte** (1934 -2012)

Born in Panama of West Indian ancestry, Roy has edited many volumes and authored, in English and Spanish, several publications on black and Caribbean immigrations to the United States and Central America.

A recipient of many public honors and academic fellowships, Roy obtained his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles (1968), studied for the Masters in Studies of Law at Yale Law School and did earlier studies at the University of Puerto Rico, University of Nebraska (1960-1961), University of Panama, and the Panama Canal College (1954). He teaches a variety of courses in the Africana and Latin American Studies Program. Among them are: SOAN 318, International Migration, U.S. Immigration and Immigrants; SOAN 321, Black Communities in Contemporary America; SOAN 323, Total Institutions: the World of the Confined; CORE 161, The Black Diaspora; and ALST 490, Senior Seminar. 

Roy is the *John D. and Catherine T. McArthur* Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Africana and Latin American Studies Program at Colgate University (Hamilton, New York, USA). He has taught in the Social Sciences at several colleges and universities in the United States and has served as Director of the Yale University Afro-American Studies Program, the Smithsonian Institution's Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, and the Center for Immigration and Population Studies of the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He has served as a consultant to the Organization of American States and made several testimonies before the U.S. Congress and other national and international agencies in the District area.

Roy served as the guest curator of "*Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor...?*", an exhibition on black voluntary immigration to the United States, which was first shown at the Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture, New York Public Library, in observance of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty.

Specialities
Sociological and historical studies of new non-white immigration; comparative and ethnohistorical studies of Afro-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic and other "New World" Black experiences, particularly in institutional and communal settings

**Publications**
Four edited books, including a two-volume Sourcebook on the New Immigration (Smithsonian Institution, 1979), and others on Caribbean immigration and its implications for the United States; "*A Lesser-Known Chapter of the African Diaspora: West Indians in Costa Rica,*" "*Black Immigrants,*" "*Voluntary Immigration and Continuing Encounters Between Blacks*" (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science); other articles and book contributions

**Professional Experience**
Organizing Director, Center for Immigrant and Population Studies, CUNY-Staten Island 1986-89; Guest Curator-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture 1985-86; President/Director, Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies Inc. 1983-86; Curator/Senior Research Sociologist, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution 1972-83; Director and General Editor, Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution 1972-83

**Distinctions**
Who's Who listings and awards for distinguished service and contributions to Afro-Latino studies; City Council of the District of Columbia Mayor's Award for contributions to the arts; Gelman Service Award of the Eastern Sociological Society; Scholarly Contributions Award of the Caribbean-American Intercultural Organization; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Visiting Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health; Undergraduate Teaching Award, Danforth Foundation; lecturer D.C. Humanities Council 1990


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Source:

 1. rlaporte [at] center.colgate.edu
 2. Colgate University Faculty Directory