Rebellion and Repression  in Chiapas

Rebellion and Repression in Chiapas

A Massacre Foretold (DVD, 2007, 58 minutes), directed by Nick Higgins, Lansdowne Productions (massacreforetold.com) In the first scene of A ...
World Cup Cricket and Caribbean Aspirations: From Nello  to Mello

World Cup Cricket and Caribbean Aspirations: From Nello to Mello

C.L.R. James’s classic book Beyond a Boundary portrayed, arguably better than any before or since, the relation between cricket and ...
Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers

Medellín: The Peace of the Pacifiers

The ride into Medellín, Colombia, is spectacular, especially at night, when lights sprawl up the western hills about a mile ...
A Rare Happy Ending: Piñones Versus the Developers

A Rare Happy Ending: Piñones Versus the Developers

As tourism continues to grow into one of the most profitable sectors of Puerto Rico’s economy, many small communities have ...
A Southern Route from West to East

A Southern Route from West to East

Fifty years have passed since the historic Bandung conference, one of the first meetings of countries from the “Global South” ...
Beyond Borders: Culture, Movement and Bedlam on Both Sides of the Rio Grande

Beyond Borders: Culture, Movement and Bedlam on Both Sides of the Rio Grande

GOSPEL: From "The Acts of the Apostles": ... there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as offire, and it sat ...
Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

Contesting the Images of Oppression: Indigenous Views of Blackness in the Americas

In the mid fifteenth century, sailors under the command of the Portuguese entrepreneur Prince Henry the Navigator began purchasing human ...
Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil

Africanity vs Blackness: Race, Class and Culture in Brazil

Most of what the world knows as Brazilian culture, and what Brazil projects in international performance, is of African origin ...
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