Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983: Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929-1983

ISBN-13: 9781474403696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 272 str.

Heather Vrana

Opis

Few people know that student protest emerged in Latin America decades before the infamous student movements of Western Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. Even fewer people know that Central American university students authored colonial agendas and anti-colonial critiques. In fact, Central American students were key actors in shaping ideas of nation, empire, and global exchange. Bridging a half-century of student protest from 1929 to 1983, this source reader contains more than sixty texts from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Costa Rica, including editorials, speeches, manifestos, letters, and pamphlets. Available for the first time in English, these rich texts help scholars and popular audiences alike to rethink their preconceptions of student protest and revolution. The texts also illuminate key issues confronting social movements today: global capitalism, dispossession, privatization, development, and state violence.

Spis treści

Notes on Translations; Notes on Sources; Introduction; Further Reading; 1. Central American Modernities, 1929-1944; 2. Enduring Militarism, 1952-1959; 3. Dependency, Development, and New Roles for Student Movements, 1960-1981; 4. Revolution and Civil War, 1966-1981; 5. Revolutionary Futures, 1976-1982; Conclusion.