Our time is now, race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala, Julie Gibbings
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Our time is now, race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala, Julie Gibbings
Language
eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Our time is now
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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1165642833
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Julie Gibbings
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Cambridge Latin American studies, 120Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala
Summary
Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolut--, Provided by publisher
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- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Ethnic relations -- History
- Nationalism -- Guatemala -- History
- Coffee plantations -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Land tenure
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Government relations
- Germans -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Economic conditions
- Postcolonialism -- Guatemala -- History
- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Politics and government
- Guatemala -- History -- Revolution, 1954 -- Causes
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- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Ethnic relations -- History
- Nationalism -- Guatemala -- History
- Coffee plantations -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Land tenure
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Government relations
- Germans -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- History
- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Economic conditions
- Postcolonialism -- Guatemala -- History
- Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) -- Emigration and immigration
- Kekchi Indians -- Guatemala -- Alta Verapaz -- Politics and government
- Guatemala -- History -- Revolution, 1954 -- Causes
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