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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibbings, Julie, editor.

Vrana, Heather A., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Ethnic conflict.

Mayas.

Social conditions.

Social change.

History.

Guatemala--Politics and government--1945-1985.

Guatemala.

Politics and government.

Guatemala--History--Revolution, 1954--Influence.

Social change--Guatemala--History--20th century.

Mayas--Guatemala--Social conditions.

Ethnic conflict--Guatemala.

Guatemala--History--1945-1985.

Collective memory--Guatemala.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Foreword. The Path back to the Future

the Enduring Legacy of the Revolution (Jim Handy)

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Revisiting the Revolution in Contemporary Guatemala (Heather Vrana and Julie Gibbings)

Part I. New Regions

Chapter 1. "To Wrench Our Rights from La Frutera": Race, Labor, and Redefining National Belonging on the Caribbean Coast (Ingrid Sierakowski)

Chapter 2. The Coastal Laboratory: Milpa, Conservation, and Agrarian Reform (Patrick Chassé)

Chapter 3. Arévalo's Tomorrowland: The Revolutionary Crusade to Build and Defend the New Guatemala on the Petén Frontier (Anthony Andersson)

Part II. New Frames

Chapter 4. The "Indigenous Problem," Cold War US Anthropology, and Revolutionary Nationalism: New Approaches to Racial Thinking and Indigeneity in Guatemala (Jorge Ramón González Ponciano)

Chapter 5. Youths and Juan José Arévalo's Democratic Government in Guatemala, 1945-1951 (Arturo Taracena Arriola)

Chapter 6. Rethinking Representation and Periodization in Guatemala's Democratic Experiment (David Carey Jr.)

Part III. New Actors

Chapter 7. "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)

Chapter 8. "Una obra revolucionaria": Indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944-1954 (Sarah Foss)

Part IV. New Memories

Chapter 9. Water Power Promise: Revisiting Revolutionary DIY (Diane M. Nelson)

Chapter 10. Reclaiming a Revolution: Memory as Possibility in Urban Guatemala (Betsy Konefal)

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Gibbings, Julie Out of the Shadow : Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala

ISBN:

9781477320860

1477320865

Publisher Number:

40030099227

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Restricted for use by site license.