A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America
In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette ...
To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles
Day to day, we all get along, says South Los Angeles community leader Arturo Ybarra, unintentionally alluding to Rodney Kings ...
Ethnic (In)Visibility in Neoliberal Argentina
During the 1990s, Argentinas government and national media repeatedly called attention to a wave of migration that was supposedly flooding ...
WOMEN ORGANIZE TO FIGHT GENDER DISCRIMINATION
Women now represent 35.5% of Brazil's docu- mented labor force-up from 20.8% in 1970-the largest proportion of employed women in ...
Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants: Rejection of African Heritage Fuels Anti-Haitian Views
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republicwho number at ...
The Political is Personal
I never met Cesitar. At a meeting of religious leaders on the issue of If homosexuality, his father described him ...
Travelling North: A Chronicle of an Undocumented Journey
In April 1994 I came to the United States from El Salvador. I came with three other young women and ...
Muslims in the Americas Face Scrutiny
In july 1994, a new york city detective with the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force came to the door of ...
