Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky (born April 20, 1957 in Boston ) is an American historian . She is a senior lecturer in Latin American Studies at Salem State College , Massachusetts .

life and work

Aviva Chomsky is the daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky and linguist Carol Chomsky . Her grandfather was the Hebraist William Chomsky . She worked as a researcher for Bates College and Harvard University .

Positions

The subject of her work is the emergence of social and economic parallel structures of immigrants in the USA. She describes these tendencies using the example of Jamaican workers who worked for the United Fruit Company (today: Chiquita Brands International) . In particular, the immigration policy of the United States is criticized by Chomsky. Civil rights would have been primarily intended only for whites in the US. The distinction between legal and illegal immigrants would have been linked primarily to the background of economic usefulness.

credentials

• USA: “Civil rights have always been based on race” historian Aviva Chomsky in the STANDARD interview on Washington's immigration policy , published in Der Standard on August 17, 2010.

Publications

• A History of the Cuban Revolution , Wiley-Blackwell, New York, New York 2010 ISBN 978-1-4051-8773-2
• Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class . Duke University Press, Durham, North Caroline. 2008. ISBN 0822341905

• The People Behind Colombian Coal / Bajo el manto del carbon , Aviva Chomsky, Garry Leech, Steve Striffler (Editors), 2007. ISBN 9589799558

• They Take Our Jobs! and 20 Other Myths About Immigration . Beacon Press, July 2007. Paperback: 236 pages. In English. ( ISBN 978-0807041567 ).

• West Indian Workers and United Fruit Company , 1870-1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8071-1979-2

• Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring People of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, (Comparative and International Working-Class History) , Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago (Editors), 1998. 404 pages. Duke University Press, Durham, North Caroline, ( ISBN 978-0822322023 )

• The Profits of Extermination | The Profits of Extermination: How US Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia , Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, Common Courage Press, ( ISBN 1-56751-322-0 ), 2005. (Translation and introduction by Aviva Chomsky)

• The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editors), Duke University Press, Durham, North Caroline, January 2004. ( ISBN 978-0822331971 ).

• Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia ( ISBN 1-931859-17-5 ) Author: Alfredo Molano (Introduction by Aviva Chomsky.)

Web links

• http://www.avivachomsky.com
• Faculty Profile