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The blood of Guatemala : a history of race and nation

Author: Greg Grandin
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series: Latin America otherwise.
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"Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. In The Blood of Guatemala Greg Grandin locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of  Read more...
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Grandin, Greg, 1962-
Blood of Guatemala.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606285837
Online version:
Grandin, Greg, 1962-
Blood of Guatemala.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)608061693
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Greg Grandin
ISBN: 0822324954 9780822324959 082232458X 9780822324584
OCLC Number: 42392156
Description: xviii, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Searching for the living among the dead --
Prelude: A world put right, 31 March 1840 --
The greatest Indian city in the world: caste, gender, and politics, 1750-1821 --
Defending the pueblo: popular protests and elite politics, 1786-1826 --
A pestilent nationalism: the 1837 Cholera Epidemic reconsidered --
A house with two masters: Carrera and the restored republic of Indians --
Principales to patrones, Macehuales to Mozos: land, labor, and the commodification of community --
Regenerating the race: race, class, and the natiionalization of ethnicity --
Time and space among the Maya: Mayan modernism and the transformation of the city --
The Blood of Guatemalans: class struggle and the death of Kiche nationalism --
Conclusions: the limits of nation, 1954-1999 --
Epilogue: The living among the dead.
Series Title: Latin America otherwise.
Responsibility: Greg Grandin.
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