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Cross-Border Cosmopolitans

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Historian Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey tells the story of the African migrants who circulated between the Caribbean and the North America in the twentieth century, and how a subset of them built a transnational life, and racial solidarity, along the US...

The International Response to COVID-19: A Q&A with Dr. Almaliky

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A comparative look at the global efforts to control the disease will tell us much about the effectiveness of healthcare systems around the world and also help prepare us for the next bug. By Michelle Nicholasen Both a physician and a scholar on Iraq and...

When Should Children Be Allowed to Work?

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A comparative study in human rights compliance in Bolivia and Argentina by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Lorenza Fontana and Jean Grugel. by Lorenza Fontana and Jean Grugel When we think about child labor, what often comes to mind are images of dirty...

One Thousand Years of Capitalism

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Sven Beckert, a history professor at Harvard, has written an epic book about the history of capitalism over roughly a millenium: it’s called Capitalism: A Global History. Beckert believes the only way to understand one’s place in the world is through...

Slavery’s Legacy and the Racial Awakening of 2020

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Historian Vincent Brown discusses the centuries-long impact of the slave trade and its links to today’s racial inequities. By Michelle Nicholasen This is the first of a two-part interview with Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate Vincent Brown about his...

Fighting the Enemy Within

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Historian Vincent Brown reflects on the long-term societal impact of being in a constant state of war. By Michelle Nicholasen This is the second of a two-part interview with historian Vincent Brown about US racial inequities and the legacies of the...

The Pro-Life Movement Foments “Moral Panic” in Latin America

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Shortly after the passage of a total abortion ban in 1997, El Salvador became the first Latin American nation to routinely incarcerate poor women experiencing stillbirths and other obstetrical emergencies for the crime of “homicide.” Sociologist Jocelyn...

Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border

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As an ethnographer and an EMT, Harvard anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte has a front-line perspective on tensions at the politically fraught border between Mexico and the United States. Ieva Jusionyte has always been drawn to tensions at the border. As a...

Why Venezuela?

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The last time the US invaded a Latin American country was in 1989, in Panama; will Venezuela be next?