NACLA Report on the Americas, Volume 49, Issue 1 (2017)

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#BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere

Editors’ Note

#BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere
Joshua Frens-String & Alejandro Velasco
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Around the Region

Situation Normal in Venezuela: All Fouled Up
Amid an historic crisis, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro hangs on with the help of a stalwart ally: the country’s long dysfunctional opposition.
Julia Buxton
Pages: 3-6
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Capitalism a la Sandinista
Deciphering Nicaragua’s “Market Economy with a Preferential Option for the Poor”
Jonah Walters
Pages: 7-10
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Creative Justice
Behind the battle to make U.S. courtrooms sites of accountability for Latin American human rights atrocities
Kate Doyle
Pages: 11-14
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Feature Essay

Trump’s Wall at Nixon’s Border
How Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept laid the foundation for decades of U.S.-Mexico border policy, including Donald Trump’s wall
Patrick Timmons
Pages: 15-24
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Reports

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A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism
As antiracist movements take center stage in the U.S., the long history of Black organizing across the Americas offers important lessons—and opportunities for solidarity beyond borders
Larnies A. Bowen, Ayanna Legros, Tianna Paschel, Geísa Mattos, Kleaver Cruz & Juliet Hooker
Pages: 25-35
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Black Liberation: A Hemispheric Task
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is a book that matters for racial justice struggles across the Americas.
George Ciccariello-Maher
Pages: 36-40
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Battling Anti-Black Genocide in Brazil
For over a decade, antiracist movements in Brazil have sought justice for the killing of Black Brazilians by state forces.
Christen A. Smith
Pages: 41-47
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Conflicting Legacies of Antiracism in Cuba
A new generation of Afro-Cubans confronts the paradoxical coexistence of racism, antiracism, and discourses of “racelessness” within the Cuban revolution.
Devyn Spence Benson
Pages: 48-55
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To End 500 Years of Great Terror
For Afro-Colombian communities, the struggle for peace and justice is centuries long—and remains far from over.
Yesenia Barragan
Pages: 56-63
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In Moral Debt to Haiti
In the world’s first independent Black Republic, cholera victims and their international allies continue to fight the UN for their basic right to clean water and monetary reparation.
Claire Antone Payton
Pages: 64-70
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Black Lives and the Gospel of Liberation
Liberation theology offered a radical critique of structural inequality and systemic oppression. Its echoes in Black Lives Matter are surprising—and essential.
John E. Drabinski
Pages: 71-75
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Judgment Day in the D.R.
Recent events in the Dominican Republic and the U.S. reveal the deepening links between anti-immigrant xenophobia and anti-Black racism.
Lorgia García Peña
Pages: 76-80
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Race Matters in Dangerous Times
A network of scholar-activists assesses changing racial formations across the Americas—and mobilizes against renewed racist backlash.
Charles R. Hale, Pamela Calla & Leith Mullings
Pages: 81-89
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From the Archives

Race Records
In the Dominican Republic, origin narratives about the nation’s founding form a bedrock of today’s racism.
Anne Eller
Pages: 90-94
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Reflections

In Search of Peace Amidst a History of Violence
In Colombia’s Jardines de Sucumbíos, years of violence and state neglect generate both hope and skepticism about peace.
Miguel Winograd
Pages: 95-101
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Remembering Fidel
Naclistas reflect on the 2016 passing of Fidel Castro and the meaning of the Cuban revolution.
John L. Hammond, Judith Adler Hellman, Kirsten Weld & Joseph Nevins
Pages: 102-107
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Arts and Reviews

“Every Concert is a Rally”
A conversation with Chilean singer-songwriter Nano Stern
Julia T. Burnell & Nano Stern
Pages: 108-113
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Review of Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul
Amalia Córdova
Pages: 114-115
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Review of Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber’s Blood of Extraction
Canadian Imperialism in Latin America
Geoff Goodwin
Pages: 116-117
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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Review of George Ciccariello-Maher’s Building the Commune
Radical Democracy in Venezuela
Steve Ellner
Pages: 118-120
Published online: 14 Mar 2017
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