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Christy Thornton

  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Assistant Professor, Sociology and Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
As seen in: The New York Times, Color Research & Application, Taylor & Francis Online, The Nation, AlterNet, Jacobin, History News Network, North American Congress on Latin America (Nacla)
Author, Revolution in Development (@UCPress 2021) / Co-director, @HPE_Project / #PellGrant professor / @NACLA siempre / #NoMoreDrugWar(s)
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The Fierce Activism of Deborah Poole

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By Bret Gustafson, Christy Thornton
| North American Congress on Latin America (Nacla) Verified
NACLA is saddened to report the death of Deborah Poole, a long-time Naclista and editorial committee member, a scholar of Peru and Mexico, and a committed and passionate voice for progressive change in the Americas. She was the author or editor of five books, a wide range of important scholarly articles, and dozens of pieces of public scholarship, many of them published by NACLA over the last three decades.
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From the War Room to Wall Street

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By Christy Thornton
| Jacobin Verified
The scourge of the international investor is uncertainty: the inability to predict the social, political or economic future in a country halfway around the world increases the risk of invest- ing there, and therefore raises the cost of borrowing for or insuring a given venture. How, then, does a firm hedge against an unknowable future in some far-flung corner of the globe?
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Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media. By Michael Rosino. New York: Routledge, 2021. Pp. viii+188. $42.95 (paper).

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By Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins
| uchicago.edu
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