| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Critical human rights |
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Critical human rights.
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| Contents |
Preface: The Past in the Present -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Grassroots Sistering and Politics -- 1. Radical Roots -- 2. Re-educating Empire -- 3. New Horizons -- 4. This Promised Land -- Conclusion: Unmasking Empire |
| Summary |
As bloody wars raged in Central America during the last third of the twentieth century, hundreds of North American groups "adopted" villages in war-torn Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Unlike government-based cold war-era Sister City programs, these pairings were formed by ordinary people, often inspired by individuals displaced by US-supported counterinsurgency operations. Drawing on two decades of work with former refugees from El Salvador as well as unprecedented access to private archives and oral histories, Molly Todd's compelling history provides the first in-depth look at "grassroots sistering." This model of citizen diplomacy emerged in the mid-1980s out of relationships between a few repopulated villages in Chalatenango, El Salvador, and US cities. Todd shows how the leadership of Salvadorans and left-leaning activists in the US concerned with the expansion of empire as well as the evolution of human rights-related discourses and practices created a complex dynamic of cross-border activism that continues today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
U.S.-El Salvador Sister Cities.
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Human rights movements -- El Salvador
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Sister cities.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Human rights movements
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Sister cities
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| SUBJECT |
El Salvador -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- El Salvador
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| Subject |
El Salvador
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780299330637 |
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029933063X |
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