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Hacer América and the American Dream: Global Migration and the Americas

… of peoples from other continents to Latin America and the Caribbean began in the years after the arrival of Columbus … created programs to recruit workers from Mexico and the Caribbean. Together, these postwar programs marked an … South and the Mountain West states. Latin America and the Caribbean account for nearly 80% of unauthorized residents …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… an associate professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean studies and history department at Rutgers … experimental things that the United States pursued in the Caribbean and Central America and in Mexico with respect to …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… grown into one played throughout the world today, from Caribbean beaches to Himalayan hillsides? Why did this game … America, the sport is experiencing a revival, propelled by Caribbean and South Asian communities there.  The question, …

Pirates of Puntland, Somalia

… By 2008--after decades in which the Straits of Malacca, the Caribbean, and the Nigerian coast consistently witnessed the …

The Year of Africa

… that the structure of rumba had been exported to the Caribbean from Congo itself through the Trans-Atlantic Slave … England. The international gathering of African students, Caribbean activists, and African American intellectuals … relationships with African diaspora communities in the Caribbean, United States, and Europe. Ghanaian independence …
Cover of "Our Hemisphere"? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall.

Episodes of Ambivalent Empire

Review of “Our Hemisphere”? The United States in Latin America, from 1776 to the Twenty-First Century by : Britta H. Crandall and Russell C. Crandall (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021)
… United States’ early twentieth-century interventions in the Caribbean Basin follows a traditional state-centered …
cars on a highway

Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian Ethanol

… to other regions, particularly other countries in the Caribbean that become large sugar producers, even as … countries like the Dominican Republic and others within the Caribbean. And so how successful has that been? Brazil also …
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.

After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807

Review of After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, by Marika Sherwood (I.B. Tauris, 2007)
… 1834 was equally half-hearted. It ended slavery only in the Caribbean, not the rest of the British Empire. Slavery only …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… footholds in South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. As Senator under Reagan and Nixon, Joe Biden was …
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837

Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate

Review of Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History, by Ana Lucia Araujo (New York City: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2017)
… period. In the 1880s, Cuba and other French and British Caribbean territories such as Martinique or Guadeloupe, …
Cover of Zoot Suit The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style by Kathy Peiss.

A Suit, or a Statement?

Review of Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, by Kathy Peiss (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
… of chapter six. From Mexico to Canada, Africa and the Caribbean, the zoot suit quickly appeared outside of America …

The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking

… organized the air transport into the United States, using a Caribbean island as a stopover. The most infamous member of … cocaine flowing into the United States from the historical Caribbean routes to transit networks along the U.S.-Mexican …