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 ...
Venezuela: Washington Suffers a Setback
We have been concerned with some of the actions of Venezuelan President Chávez and his understanding of what a democratic ...
Chavismo at the Crossroads: Hardliners, Moderates and a Regime under Attack
On Monday, April 15, the day after his dramatic return to power, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called for a national ...
Book Review Essay: Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil
Why are you importing a U.S. problem into our society? We are not black, or white, or Indian. We are ...
Zapatismo and the Emergence of Indigenous Feminism
One thing I am clear about is that since I realized, at the age of 13 or 14, that something ...
Ecuador: Oil Strike in the Amazon
A major strike in ecuadors main oil-producing provinces in August dealt a heavy blow to multinational oil corporations operating in ...
Latinos in the Age of National (In)Security
The Chiapanecan Indian and Nicaraguan farm workers fled their bucolic but troubled rural homelands to harvest these fields carpeted with ...
The Road to Durban-and Back
Afro-Latino activists and development workers had long harbored high hopes that the UN World Conference on Racism, held late last ...
