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Our Time is Now - Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Paperback)
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Our Time is Now - Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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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
revolution.
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