Garden of despair : the political economy of class, land, and labor -- A bittersweet transition : politics and labor in the 1920s -- Fiestas of the oppressed : the social geography and culture of mobilization -- "Ese trabajo era enteramente de los naturales" : ethnic conflict and mestizaje in Western Salvador, 1914-1931 -- "To the face of the entire world" : repression and radicalization, September 1931-January 1932 -- Red ribbons and machetes : the Insurrection of January 1932 -- "They killed the just for the sinners" : the counter-revolutionary massacres -- Memories of the massacre : the political and cultural consequences of 1932
Summary
An investigation of the January 1932 massacre of thousands of rural laborers in El Salvador and its long-term cultural and political consequences
