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Out of the shadow : revisiting the revolution from post-peace Guatemala / edited by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxii, 312 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477320860
  • 1477320865
  • 9781477320877
  • 1477320873
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Out of the shadow.DDC classification:
  • 972.8105/2 23
LOC classification:
  • F1466.5 .O83 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword : The path back to the future--the enduring legacy of the revolution / Jim Handy -- Introduction : Revisiting the revolution in contemporary Guatemala / Heather Vrana and Julie Gibbings -- "To wrench our rights from La Frutera" : race, labor, and redefining national belonging on the Caribbean coast / Ingrid Sierakowski -- The coastal laboratory : Milpa, conservation, and agrarian reform / Patrick Chassé -- Arévalo's Tomorrowland : the revolutionary crusade to build and defend the new Guatemala on the Petén frontier / Anthony Anderson -- The "indigenous problem," Cold War US anthropology, and revolutionary nationalism : new approaches to racial thinking and indigeneity in Guatemala / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano -- Youths and Juan José Arévalo's democratic government in Guatemala, 1945-1951 / Arturo Taracena Arriola -- Rethinking representation and periodization in Guatemala's democratic experiment / David Carey Jr. -- "A pack of cigarettes or some soap" : "race," security, international public health, and human medical experimentation during Guatemala's October Revolution / Abigail E. Adams and Laura Giraudo -- "Una obra revolucionaria" : indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954 / Sarah Foss -- Water power promise : revisiting revolutionary DIY / Diane M. Nelson -- Reclaiming a revolution : memory as possibility in urban Guatemala / Betty Konefal.
Summary: "An investigation of Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" (1944-1954), a remarkable period of open elections, moderate social reform, and widely successful literacy campaigns, with essays focusing on historical memory and human rights, the rethinking of revolutions and coups, and the move toward analyzing actors on the periphery of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword : The path back to the future--the enduring legacy of the revolution / Jim Handy -- Introduction : Revisiting the revolution in contemporary Guatemala / Heather Vrana and Julie Gibbings -- "To wrench our rights from La Frutera" : race, labor, and redefining national belonging on the Caribbean coast / Ingrid Sierakowski -- The coastal laboratory : Milpa, conservation, and agrarian reform / Patrick Chassé -- Arévalo's Tomorrowland : the revolutionary crusade to build and defend the new Guatemala on the Petén frontier / Anthony Anderson -- The "indigenous problem," Cold War US anthropology, and revolutionary nationalism : new approaches to racial thinking and indigeneity in Guatemala / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano -- Youths and Juan José Arévalo's democratic government in Guatemala, 1945-1951 / Arturo Taracena Arriola -- Rethinking representation and periodization in Guatemala's democratic experiment / David Carey Jr. -- "A pack of cigarettes or some soap" : "race," security, international public health, and human medical experimentation during Guatemala's October Revolution / Abigail E. Adams and Laura Giraudo -- "Una obra revolucionaria" : indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954 / Sarah Foss -- Water power promise : revisiting revolutionary DIY / Diane M. Nelson -- Reclaiming a revolution : memory as possibility in urban Guatemala / Betty Konefal.

"An investigation of Guatemala's "Ten Years of Spring" (1944-1954), a remarkable period of open elections, moderate social reform, and widely successful literacy campaigns, with essays focusing on historical memory and human rights, the rethinking of revolutions and coups, and the move toward analyzing actors on the periphery of the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher

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