Haiti: In Bondage to History?
The acrid smell hanging over the once-grand hillside neighborhood of Bel-Aire, near Haiti’s bleached white National Palace, was by then ...
The Paradoxes of Racial Politics
The first installment of this three-part series, “The Politics of Race and Globalization,” focused on racial and ethnic identities in ...
Oil, Markets, and Solidarity
Though you wouldn’t know it from the evening news, the Bush Administration has not lost interest in the Americas. It ...
The Kirchner Factor
When Néstor Kirchner assumed the presidency of Argentina in May 2003 with only 22% of votes cast, few imagined his ...
Racial Quotas for a “Racial Democracy”
When the Brazilian government began considering affirmative action policies based on race, critics claimed they would be impossible to implement ...
We Are Everywhere
“This isn’t a book, it’s a brick with which to shatter cynicism,” said Luther Blisset, a group of Italian anarchists ...
Costa Rica: Corruption Scandals
A series of high-profile corruption scandals rocked Costa Rica last October, implicating three ex-presidents and forcing one of them to ...
Citizenship and the Making of Caribbean Freedom
At the very moment when Haitians should have been celebrating the bicentennial of their revolutionary overthrow of the most powerful ...
