This City Belongs to You
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This City Belongs to You

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

This City Belongs to You

About this book

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala's only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the government, all while crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the relationship between the university and the state been so mutable, yet so mutually formative. By showing how the very notion of the middle class in Guatemala emerged from these student movements, this book places an often-marginalized region and period at the center of histories of class, protest, and youth movements and provides an entirely new way to think about the role of universities and student bodies in the formation of liberal democracy throughout Latin America.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. This City Belongs to You
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. List of Abbreviations
  11. Introduction: “Do Not Mess with Us!”
  12. 1 • The Republic of Students, 1942–1952
  13. 2 • Showcase for Democracy, 1953–1957
  14. 3 • A Manner of Feeling, 1958–1962
  15. 4 • Go Forth and Teach All, 1963–1977
  16. 5 • Combatants for the Common Cause, 1976–1978
  17. 6 • Student Nationalism without a Government, 1977–1980
  18. Coda: “Ahí van los estudiantes!” 1980–Present
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index