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Foss, Sarah

 
9781469670331: On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala (New Cold War History)
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ISBN 10: 146967033X ISBN 13: 9781469670331
Editorial: University of North Carolina Press, 2022

Sinopsis

During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key form of intervention as government officials and experts from the United States and Latin America believed that development could foster hemispheric solidarity and security. In parts of Latin America, its implementation was especially intricate because recipients of these programs were diverse Indigenous peoples with their own politics, economics, and cultures. Contrary to project planners' expectations, Indigenous beneficiaries were not passive recipients but actively engaged with development interventions and, in the process, redefined racialized ideas about Indigeneity.

Sarah Foss illustrates how this process transpired in Cold War Guatemala, spanning democratic revolution, military coups, and genocidal civil war. Drawing on previously unused sources such as oral histories, anthropologists' field notes, military records, municipal and personal archives, and a private photograph collection, Foss analyzes the uses and consequences of development and its relationship to ideas about race from multiple perspectives, emphasizing its historical significance as a form of intervention during the Cold War.

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Sarah Foss is assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. 

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Editorial
University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
146967033X
ISBN 13 
9781469670331
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Número de páginas
334
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