Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky (born April 20, 1957) is currently a professor and the coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State College, Massachusetts. She was previously a professor at Bates College and a faculty research associate at Harvard University, specializing in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the eldest daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born 1928. Her grandfather was Professor of Hebrew and Principal of Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, for many years, William Chomsky, (1896 -Philadelphia, 1977, aged 81).
Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 relates the history of the US-based companies which built railroads and cultivated bananas on the Atlantic Coast of Costa Rica and which merged to form United Fruit in 1899. It also describes how the workers, including many Jamaicans, 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).
Her own professional profile can be found at: [1]
Books
- Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. Duke University Press,Durham, North Caroline. 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, July 2007. Paperback: 236 pages . In English. (ISBN-10: 0807041564) . (ISBN-13: 978-0807041567).
- West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xiii + 302 pp. Tables, graphs.
- Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring People of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, (Comparative and International Working-Class History), Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago (Editors), 1998. 404 pages. Duke University Press, Durham, North Caroline, (ISBN-10: 0822322021). (ISBN-13: 978-0822322023)
- The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia, Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, Common Courage Press, (ISBN 1-56751-322-0), 2005. (Translation and introduction by Aviva Chomsky)
- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics, (ISBN 0-8223-3197-7) Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editors), Duke University Press, Durham, North Caroline, January 2004. (ISBN-10: 0822331977), (ISBN-13: 978-0822331971).
- The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia (ISBN 1-931859-17-5) Author: Alfredo Molano (Introduction by Aviva Chomsky.)
- The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Edited by Steven Palmer and Iván Molina. Durham: Duke University Press, Durham North Caroline, November 2004. Pp. xiv, 383. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index.Paperback: 383 pages. In English. (ISBN-10: 0822333724) , (ISBN-13: 978-0822333722). Book review by Aviva Chomsky available in Internet through: [2] published initially in The Americas 62.1 (2005) 124-125. Copyright © 2005 Academy of American Franciscan History. All rights reserved.
External links
- Faculty profile at Salem State College.