Introduction : reflecting upon the historical impact of the coup / Timothy J. Smith and Abigail E. Adams -- Antonio Goubaud Carrera : between the contradictions of the generación de 1920 and U.S. anthropology / Abigail E. Adams -- Recovering the truth of the 1954 coup : restoring peace with justice / June C. Nash -- A democracy born in violence : Maya perceptions of the 1944 Patzicía Massacre and the 1954 coup / David Carey Jr. -- The politics of land, identity, and silencing : a case study from El Oriente of Guatemala, 1944-54 / Christa Little-Siebold -- The path back to literacy : Maya education through war and beyond / Judith M. Maxwell -- Democracy delayed : the evolution of ethnicity in Guatemala society, 1944-96 / Richard N. Adams
Summary
This collection revisits the aftermath of the 1954 coup that ousted the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz. Contributors frame the impact of 1954 not only in terms of the liberal reforms and coffee revolutions of the nineteenth century, but also in terms of post-1954 U.S. foreign policy and the genocide of the 1970s and 1980s. --From publisher's description
