Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State brings
together new research on the social history of Central America and
the Spanish-speaking Caribbean during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Aviva Chomsky and Aldo A. Lauria Santiago have
gathered both well-known and emerging scholars to demonstrate how
the actions and ideas of rural workers, peasants, migrants, and
women formed an integral part of the growth of the export economies
of the era and to examine the underacknowledged impact such groups
had on the shaping of national histories. Responding to the fact
that the more common, elite-centered "national" histories distort
or erase the importance of gender, race, ethnicity, popular
consciousness, and identity, contributors to this volume correct
this imbalance by moving these previously overlooked issues to the
center of historical research and analysis. In so doing, they
describe how these marginalized working peoples of the Hispanic
Caribbean Basin managed to remain centered on not only class-based
issues but on a sense of community, a desire for dignity, and a
struggle for access to resources. Individual essays include
discussions of plantation justice in Guatemala, highland Indians in
Nicaragua, the effects of foreign corporations in Costa Rica,
coffee production in El Salvador, banana workers in Honduras,
sexuality and working-class feminism in Puerto Rico, the Cuban
sugar industry, agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic, and
finally, potential directions for future research and
historiography on Central America and the Caribbean. This
collection will have a wide audience among Caribbeanists and
Central Americanists, as well as students of gender studies, and
labor, social, Latin American, and agrarian history. Contributors.
Patricia Alvarenga, Barry Carr, Julie A. Charlip, Aviva Chomsky,
Dario Euraque, Eileen Findlay, Cindy Forster, Jeffrey L. Gould,
Lowell Gudmundson, Aldo A. Lauria Santiago, Francisco Scarano,
Richard Turits
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