Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Beacon Press, 2014).

The Photographs of the Border

The Photographs of the Border The Photographs of the Border

In More Than a Wall / Más que un Muro, labor journalist David Bacon offers a politically rich, bilingual compilation of photographs and oral histories.

Aug 11, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Aviva Chomsky

Exxon Mobile Protesters Rally

For the Sake of Humanity, Let’s Abandon American Exceptionalism For the Sake of Humanity, Let’s Abandon American Exceptionalism

It’s useless in the face of climate change.

Mar 29, 2022 / Aviva Chomsky

Biden’s New Immigration Plan Is Already Outdated

Biden’s New Immigration Plan Is Already Outdated Biden’s New Immigration Plan Is Already Outdated

Migration is a cure for economic crisis—not a cause of it.

Jul 22, 2021 / Dispatch / Aviva Chomsky

Honduras-Guatemala border

Biden’s Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen Biden’s Plan for Central America Is a Smokescreen

The US government looks to continue militarizing borders in Mexico and Central America, effectively kettling migrants looking to escape poverty and violence.

Apr 1, 2021 / Aviva Chomsky

AOC Green New Deal

Sorry, Conservatives—Unions Do Support the Green New Deal Sorry, Conservatives—Unions Do Support the Green New Deal

Most labor organizers think the plan will save our jobs, not end them.

Aug 7, 2019 / Aviva Chomsky

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DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land DNA Tests Make Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land

Reviving race science plays into centuries of oppression.

Nov 29, 2018 / Aviva Chomsky

ICE arrest

Dividing Immigrants Into Good and Evil Is a Dangerous Game Dividing Immigrants Into Good and Evil Is a Dangerous Game

And if Democrats agree to play it, they’ve already lost.

Mar 13, 2018 / Aviva Chomsky

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Clinton and Obama Laid the Groundwork for Donald Trump’s War on Immigrants Clinton and Obama Laid the Groundwork for Donald Trump’s War on Immigrants

Trump’s rhetoric is shocking, but his immigration policy is nothing new.

Apr 25, 2017 / Aviva Chomsky

US Mexico Border

America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born America Wanted to Keep Immigrants Out Long Before Donald Trump Was Even Born

The United States was an explicitly racist project intended to populate the land with white people—maybe that’s what Donald means by “Make America Great Again”?

Sep 13, 2016 / Aviva Chomsky

Students at at the University of Missouri

Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It? Will the Millennial Movement Rebuild the Ivory Tower or Be Crushed by It?

School administrators absorb student demands into an increasingly market-oriented system of higher education.

May 23, 2016 / Aviva Chomsky

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