Crossing Borders: Race and Racism in the Americas

Since the bombing of the Moneda Palace, the 1973 event that put Augusto Pinochet in power, he has continued to

The last two decades have been marked by movements of people on a scale not seen in the Americas since

Two international human rights bodies—the Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the Inter-American Human Rights Court—are examining charges that the Dominican

Whither the U.S.-funded war in Colombia? In late July, a Senate committee cut $164 million from the Bush Administration’s $731

SANTIAGO—In late June, the Chilean human rights movement known as La Funa was met with water cannons, beatings and mass

“This area is full of Peruvians. They are everywhere, these dirty Indians that stand on the street all day. They

As the sun rises in a working class neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Bolivian immigrants wait on a street corner for

Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a single Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but Haitians living in the Dominican Republic—who number at

In April 1994 I came to the United States from El Salvador. I came with three other young women and

In the early afternoon of February 18, 2001, during family visiting hours, the biggest prison rebellion in Brazil’s history began

On July 25, over a hundred members of Chile’s most militant indigenous group, the Mapuche, burst into government offices in

Over the past decade, one of the more dramatic population developments in the United States has been the burgeoning of