Only by erasing history can we claim that Central American countries created their own poverty and violence, while the United States' enjoyment and profit from their bananas, coffee, vegetables, clothing, and export of arms are simply unrelated curiosities.Ĭentral America's Forgotten History shows that if we want to create a more just world, we need to acknowledge the many layers of complicity and forgetting that underlie today's inequalities. She traces the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and brings us to the present day, where she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from the three Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s that set the stage for neoliberalism in Central America.Ĭhomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed, and the impact of losing historical memory. In Central America's Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question How did we get here? She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America's historical political strife, which is a direct result of colonial and neocolonial development policies and the cultures of violence and forgetting needed to implement them.Ĭhomsky expertly recounts Central Americans' valiant struggles for social and economic justice to restore these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. Restores the region's fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States' interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.Īt the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. * Virtual programs work best with the current version of the browsers listed below:
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She has been active in Latin America solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for several decades.Īt the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here: She has also co-edited several anthologies including "Organizing for Power: Building a Twenty-First Century Labor Movement in Boston" (forthcoming 2021) "The People behind Colombian Coal: Mining, Multinationals and Human Rights"/"Bajo el manto del carbón: Pueblos y multinacionales en las minas del Cerrejón, Colombia" (2007), "The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics" (2003, 2nd edition 2019) and "Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean" (1998). Spanish edition 2011, Cuban edition 2013), and "West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940" (1996). 2015), "Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class" (2008), "They Take Our Jobs! And Twenty Other Myths about Immigration" (2007 U.S. Her books include "Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration" (forthcoming 2021) "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal" (Beacon Press, 2014 Mexican edition, 2014), "A History of the Cuban Revolution" (2011, 2nd ed. Presenter: Aviva Chomsky is Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America. Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. Professor Chomsky will argue that the United States is a “nation of deportation” as much as it is a “nation of immigrants.” Citizenship, labor, and immigration laws have intertwined to promote the economic goal of ensuring cheap labor to employers, sustained by racial notions of white supremacy.īlending history with human drama, Pr. * Use this link to join our virtual program:
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