Aviva Chomsky
Auteur de The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
A propos de l'auteur
Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. The author of several books, Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants' rights movements for more than thirty years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
Œuvres de Aviva Chomsky
They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration 58 exemplaires
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration (2021) 46 exemplaires
Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class (2008) 28 exemplaires
Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice (Myths Made in America) (2022) 16 exemplaires
Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic… (1998) 14 exemplaires
West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940: 1870-1940 (1996) 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-04-20
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Salem, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- University of California, Berkeley (BA | 1982)
University of California, Berkeley (MA | 1985)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD | 1990) - Professions
- author
activist
historian - Relations
- Chomsky, William (grandfather)
Chomsky, Noam (father) - Organisations
- Association of Caribbean Historians
American Historical Association
Latin-American Labor History Group
Latin-American Studies Association
New England Council on Latin-American Studies
New England Historical Association (tout afficher 8)
Salem State University
Bates College
Membres
Critiques
Listes
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 664
- Popularité
- #37,985
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 2
Historian Chomsky, coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University, writes that in Central America, “forgetting is layered upon forgetting.” Against a backdrop of jungles, volcanoes, and agricultural fields, the people there proved victims to generation after generation of foreign resource extractors: first the Spanish, who brutally subjugated Native populations and imposed a castelike system of governance; then European companies that kept the elites in their pockets, building an export economy of coffee and fruit that expropriated land; then U.S. military intervention. The latter is scarcely known to most Americans (and indeed, in its details, to many Central Americans), but it set in motion forces that finally led to the civil wars of the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador—the latter two propped up by the Reagan administration, which averred that the governments were committed to human rights along with anti-communism. The latter was surely true, but, as Chomsky notes, the flood of refugees to El Norte “gave the lie to Reagan’s claims of the governments’ legitimacy and right to US support.” Even Jimmy Carter pledged that after the fall of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua, “he would not allow another social revolution to occur in Central America.” The failed policies of the Trump administration were in line with a system that imposed and promulgated neoliberal policies on what were de facto colonies, but even the wall-builders could do nothing about the resulting exodus. As Chomsky notes, in 1970 the U.S. census counted 114,000 Central American immigrants; as of 2017, there were nearly 3.5 million. Of course, “the real figures are likely higher…because immigrants, especially those who are undocumented, are notoriously undercounted”—and in keeping with her provocative thesis, forgotten as well by “almost all our political leaders, mainstream media, and educational system.”
A convincing case that much of Central America’s violent unrest can be laid at the feet of U.S. leaders.
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