Aviva Chomsky
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Aviva Chomsky is a professor at Salem State College, specializing in history of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the eldest daughter of linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky is able to speak and/or read seven languages.
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Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 relates the history of the U.S.-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 Dispossessed : Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia and The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers).
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- West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870–1940.
- Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring People of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria-Santiago (Editors), 1998.
- The Profits of Extermination: How U.S. Corporate Power is Destroying Colombia, Aviva Chomsky and Francisco Ramírez Cuellar, Common Courage Press, ISBN 1-56751-322-0, 2005.
- The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics , ISBN 0-8223-3197-7 Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff (Editors), 2004.
- The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the Desterrados of Colombia ISBN 1-931859-17-5 Author: Alfredo Molano (Aviva Chomsky involved in the translation of this book.)
