Resources on Immigration, Race, Labor & U.S.-Latin American Relations
Their description: “Bolivian journalist Ollie Vargas discusses the Bolivian election and what this means for Indigenous movements and the left.” The Red Nation Podcast · Victory in Bolivia! w/ Ollie Vargas
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Their description: “Yesterday the people of Bolivia voted their socialist party and leaders back into office after a coup backed by the United States and gross capitalists like Elon Musk. It was a total rejection of the coup. Of course, the American media and power structure hardly has anything to say about it. Let me […]
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Their description: “In 2018, a young Guatemalan man named Reynaldo Castro Tum was ordered deported even though no one in the U.S. government knew where he was, or how to find him. Now, more than two years later, his unusual journey through the United States’ immigration system has sucked another man back into a legal […]
Read more >These numbers don’t convey the blood, sweat & contributions of these hard-working people. But they do speak to the scale of what the Obama administration did. Think of it in these terms: Obama prosecuted and removed some 3,094, 208 people. Based on the last census, this would be the equivalent of prosecuting and removing everyone […]
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My thoughts: Every single Latinx person in the United States should read Open Veins of Latin America. If you want to understand why people from Latin America migrate, you should read about what the United States and Western Europe have done in Latin America. In 2014, Galeano spoke at a book fair and humbly explained […]
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My thoughts: I’ve assigned Briggs’ Reproducing Empire in my courses, and I learned a lot from it. While the media has framed child separation as a uniquely Trumpian policy, child separation has been used as a terror technique by the United States long before what we’re witnessing in the present. Listen to the talk. Their […]
Read more >This is a short piece I wrote about the erasure of Latinx & Asian people from U.S. history & from the movies we watch. To read the article, click here
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My thoughts: It speaks for itself. I wouldn’t waste my time watching much of this, but you can see all you need to see from 45:30-47:00
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Their description: “In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy, she probes how people, especially Mexican and Central Americans, have been assigned this status—and to what ends. Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores […]
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Their description: “People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely voluntary. Free trade agreements and economic policies that exacerbate and reinforce extreme wealth disparities make it impossible for Mexicans to make a living at home. […]
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