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Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky’s most recent book is "Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal." She is professor of history and coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts.

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A woman looks at wildfires tearing through a forest

Emissions, Exceptionalism, and Inequality in World on Fire

Cleaner, alternative energies are only going to be truly viable if we can also greatly reduce our energy needs, which means reconfiguring the global economy. Do we really have what it takes?

Aviva Chomsky ·

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Migration Is Not the Crisis

What Washington could really do in Central America.

Aviva Chomsky ·

While the economic model lurking behind Biden's plan may be old indeed, the attempt to outsource U.S. immigration enforcement to Mexican and Central American military and police forces has proven to be a distinctly twenty-first-century twist on border policy. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

A Closer Look at Biden's Immigration Plan for Central America

Biden's plan actually promotes an old economic development model that has long benefited U.S. corporations. It also aims to impose a distinctly militarized version of "security" on the people of that region.

Aviva Chomsky ·

Despite challenges from parts of both the labor and the environmental movements, which its sponsors had undoubtedly hoped would be among its strongest supporters, Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal resolution has gone a remarkably long way toward putting a genuine discussion of what an effective and just climate policy might look like in the public arena for the first time. (Photo: Emelia Gold)

Jobs, the Environment, and a Planet in Crisis

Unions vs. Environmentalists or Unions and Environmentalists?

Aviva Chomsky ·

Native Americans” came into being not through genes but through the historical processes of conquest and colonial rule, along with grudging and fragile acknowledgement of Native sovereignty. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Making Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land

The DNA industry and the disappearing Indian

Aviva Chomsky ·

Talking Sense About Immigration

On the necessity of rejecting the president's Manichaean worldview

Aviva Chomsky ·

Why "Black Panther" Is Revolutionary, Even Though It Isn’t

Because this film is not just about poverty and it's not just about race: it's about colonialism.

Aviva Chomsky ·

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

"Protesters are eager to expend extraordinary energy denouncing small-scale racist actors. But what about the large-scale racist actors?"

Aviva Chomsky ·

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