- Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky (born
April 20 ,1957 ) is currently a professor and the coordinator ofLatin American studies atSalem State College . She has previously been a professor atBates College and a faculty research associate atHarvard University , specializing in thehistory of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the eldest daughter of linguist and political activistNoam Chomsky . She is able to speak and/or read seven languages.Her book "West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940" relates the history of the U.S.-based companies which built railroads and cultivated bananas on the Atlantic Coast of
Costa Rica and which merged to formUnited Fruit in 1899. It also describes how the workers, including manyJamaica ns, originally of African descent, developed their own parallel socio-economic system. The book was awarded the 1997 Best Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies.She has also co-edited books including "The People Behind the Coal", "Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State", and "The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics" (Latin America Readers).
Books
*"Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class". Duke University Press, 2008.
*"The People Behind the Coal/Bajo el manto del carbon", Aviva Chomsky, Garry Leech, Steve Striffler (Editors), 2007.
*"They Take Our Jobs! and 20 Other Myths About Immigration". Beacon Press, 2007 (ISBN 9780807041567).
*"West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica", 1870–1940.
*"", Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago (Editors), 1998.
*"", Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, Common Courage Press, (ISBN 1-56751-322-0), 2005. (Translation and introduction by Aviva Chomsky)
*"," (ISBN 0-8223-3197-7) Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editors), 2004.
*"" (ISBN 1-931859-17-5) Author: Alfredo Molano (Introduction by Aviva Chomsky.)External links
* [http://www.salemstate.edu/~achomsky/ Faculty profile] at Salem State College.
References
* [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Aviva%20Chomsky/103-4839816-3664623 Amazon.com]
* [http://www.salemstate.edu/~achomsky/images/jewishjournal.jpgJewish Journal article]
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