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 -- New Regions. "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 -- New Frames. 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. -- New Actors. "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 -- New Memories. 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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