Out of the Shadow : : Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala / / ed. by Heather Vrana, Julie Gibbings.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Abigail E.,; Andersson, Anthony,; Carey, David,; Chassé, Patrick,; Foss, Sarah,; Gibbings, Julie,; Giraudo, Laura,; González Ponciano, Jorge Ramón,; Handy, Jim,; Konefal, Betsy,; Nelson, Diane M.,; Sierakowski, Ingrid,; Taracena Arriola, Arturo,; Vrana, Heather,
• HerausgeberIn: Gibbings, Julie,; Vrana, Heather,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Guatemala’s “Ten Years of Spring” (1944–1954) began when citizens overthrew a military dictatorship and ushered in a remarkable period of social reform. This decade of progressive policies ended abruptly when a coup d’état, backed by the United States at the urging of the United Fruit Company, deposed a democratically elected president and set the stage for a period of systematic human rights abuses that endured for generations. Presenting the research of diverse anthropologists and historians, Out of the Shadow offers a new examination of this pivotal chapter in Latin American history. Marshaling information on regions that have been neglected by other scholars, such as coastlines dominated by people of African descent, the contributors describe an era when Guatemalan peasants, Maya and non-Maya alike, embraced change, became landowners themselves, diversified agricultural production, and fully engaged in electoral democracy. Yet this volume also sheds light on the period’s atrocities, such as the US Public Health Service’s medical experimentation on Guatemalans between 1946 and 1948. Rethinking institutional memories of the Cold War, the book concludes by considering the process of translating memory into possibility among present-day urban activists.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword. The Path back to the Future— the Enduring Legacy of the Revolution -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Revisiting the Revolution in Contemporary Guatemala -- Part I. New Regions -- Chapter 1. “To Wrench Our Rights from La Frutera”. Race, Labor, and Redefining National Belonging on the Caribbean Coast -- Chapter 2. The Coastal Laboratory. Milpa, Conservation, and Agrarian Reform -- Chapter 3. Arévalo’s Tomorrowland. The Revolutionary Crusade to Build and Defend the New Guatemala on the Petén Frontier -- 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 -- Chapter 5. Youths and Juan José Arévalo’s Democratic Government in Guatemala, 1945–1951 -- Chapter 6. Rethinking Representation and Periodization in Guatemala’s Democratic Experiment -- 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 -- Chapter 8. “Una obra revolucionaria” Indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954 -- Part IV. New Memories -- Chapter 9. Water Power Promise Revisiting Revolutionary DIY -- Chapter 10. Reclaiming a Revolution Memory as Possibility in Urban Guatemala -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index