Aviva Chomsky Libros

This insightful guide addresses and dispels the twenty-one most prevalent myths and stereotypes surrounding the current immigration debate, providing a clear and accessible understanding of the issues at hand.

A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times). In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. The result is a powerful testament of the complex, contradictory, and ever-shifting nature of status in America.

A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio- historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades.

An analysis of migration, labor-management collaboration, and the mobility of capital based on case studies in New England and Colombia.

Organizing for Power focuses on the working class and forms of labor organizing in the greater Boston area.

Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm not against immigration, only illegal immigration" and challenges the misinformation in clear, straightforward prose.In exposing the myths that underlie today's debate, Chomsky illustrates how the parameters and presumptions of the debate distort how we think—and have been thinking—about immigration. She observes that race, ethnicity, and gender were historically used as reasons to exclude portions of the population from access to rights. Today, Chomsky argues, the dividing line is citizenship. Although resentment against immigrants and attempts to further marginalize them are still apparent today, the notion that non-citizens, too, are created equal is virtually absent from the public sphere. Engaging and fresh, this book will challenge common assumptions about immigrants, immigration, and U.S. history.

"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"-- Provided by publisher

"This book shows that science is not enough to reverse climate catastrophe: we need to put social, racial, and economic justice front and center, radically redistribute, and abandon the global growth economy"-- Provided by publisher

Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations. Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigration in this incisive book. "They Take Our Jobs!" challenges the underlying assumptions that fuel misinformed claims about immigrants, radically altering our notions of citizenship, discrimination, and US history. With fresh material including a new introduction, revised timeline, and updated terminology section, this expanded edition is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how these myths are used to promote aggressive anti-immigrant policies.

›Eine Geschichte der Kubanischen Revolution‹ gewährt prägnant und aufschlussreich einen Einblick in die Hintergründe der Revolution und ihre seit nun fünfeinhalb Jahrzehnten andauernde Entwicklung. Aviva Chomsky stellt US-amerikanische und kubanische Perspektiven auf die Bedeutung der Revolution nebeneinander. Sie kritisiert und entlarvt Mythen und Vorurteile rund um eines der prägendsten Ereignisse des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch – in den USA 2015 bereits in zweiter aktualisierter Auflage erschienen – besticht durch ausgewogene Einsichten in die sozialen und historischen Aspekte der Revolution und analysiert die politischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen bis heute. Das macht ›Eine Geschichte der Kubanischen Revolution‹ zu einer unentbehrlichen Quelle für alle, die sich für Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft dieses Landes interessieren. »Dieses Buch ist nicht nur für Studierende nützlich, sondern auch eine willkommene Ergänzung zur Geschichtsschreibung über die Kubanische Revolution. Ich würde es sogar allen Kuba-Reisenden wärmstens empfehlen, denn es ist prägnant, sehr gut geschrieben und liest sich flüssig.« Hispanic American Historical Review