Incas, Indios, and Indigenism in Peru

Incas, Indios, and Indigenism in Peru

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo entered office in July 2001 raising ethnic banners to mobilize the masses against the corrupt and ...
Sex Workers of Havana: The Lure of Things

Sex Workers of Havana: The Lure of Things

Roldy was 19 years old and homeless in Havana when I spoke to him in January 2003. He had just ...
Haiti: In Bondage to History?

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 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

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

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"

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

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 ...