Aviva Chomsky

Central America's Forgotten History

Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

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Produktbeschreibung

"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 128mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780807055410
• ISBN-10: 0807055417
• Artikelnr.: 63298059

Autorenporträt

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. The author of several books including Undocumented and "They Take Our Jobs!", Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over 30 years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: A CRISIS WITH DEEP ROOTS
CHAPTER 1
Invisibility and Forgetting
CHAPTER 2
Making the United States, Making Central America: Bananas, Coffee, Savages,
and Bandits
CHAPTER 3
The Cold War, Ten Years of Spring, and the Cuban Revolution
PART II: REVOLUTION IN THE 1970 AND ’80S
CHAPTER 4
Guatemala: Reform, Revolution, and Genocide
CHAPTER 5
Nicaragua: "Luchamos contra el yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad"
CHAPTER 6
El Salvador: Si Nicaragua Venció, ¡El Salvador Vencerá!
CHAPTER 7
Honduras: Staging Ground for War and Reaganomics
CHAPTER 8
Central America Solidarity in the United States
PART III: KILLING HOPE
CHAPTER 9
Peace Treaties and Neoliberalism
CHAPTER 10
Migration
CONCLUSION
Trump’s Border War
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Index