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* divided into two major sections: - in nine chapters the first
part of the book examines "the big picture" of the research process
- in ten chapters the second part focuses on Specialized Areas and
Methods of Historical Research * designed around specific learning
outcomes, tangible "products" that mark important phases in the
research process, with questions, case studies, and templates *
appropriate for use both inside and beyond the classroom, with
capstone/thesis courses, junior and sophomore level research
seminars
* divided into two major sections: - in nine chapters the first
part of the book examines "the big picture" of the research process
- in ten chapters the second part focuses on Specialized Areas and
Methods of Historical Research * designed around specific learning
outcomes, tangible "products" that mark important phases in the
research process, with questions, case studies, and templates *
appropriate for use both inside and beyond the classroom, with
capstone/thesis courses, junior and sophomore level research
seminars
As bloody wars raged in Central America during the last third of
the twentieth century, hundreds of North American groups
“adopted” villages in war-torn Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El
Salvador. Unlike government-based cold war–era Sister City
programs, these pairings were formed by ordinary people, often
inspired by individuals displaced by US-supported counterinsurgency
operations. Drawing on two decades of work with former refugees
from El Salvador as well as unprecedented access to private
archives and oral histories, Molly Todd’s compelling history
provides the first in-depth look at “grassroots sistering.”
This model of citizen diplomacy emerged in the mid-1980s out of
relationships between a few repopulated villages in Chalatenango,
El Salvador, and US cities. Todd shows how the leadership of
Salvadorans and left-leaning activists in the US concerned with the
expansion of empire as well as the evolution of human
rights–related discourses and practices created a complex dynamic
of cross-border activism that continues today.
As bloody wars raged in Central America during the last third of
the twentieth century, hundreds of North American groups "adopted"
villages in war-torn Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Unlike
government-based cold war-era Sister City programs, these pairings
were formed by ordinary people, often inspired by individuals
displaced by US-supported counterinsurgency operations. Drawing on
two decades of work with former refugees from El Salvador as well
as unprecedented access to private archives and oral histories,
Molly Todd's compelling history provides the first in-depth look at
"grassroots sistering." This model of citizen diplomacy emerged in
the mid-1980s out of relationships between a few repopulated
villages in Chalatenango, El Salvador, and US cities. Todd shows
how the leadership of Salvadorans and left-leaning activists in the
US concerned with the expansion of empire as well as the evolution
of human rights-related discourses and practices created a complex
dynamic of cross-border activism that continues today.
During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to
the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out
dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of
crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome
bodily mutilations. Even as human rights violations drew world
attention, repression and war displaced more than a quarter of El
Salvador's population, both inside the country and beyond its
borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of
war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to
the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was not hasty
and chaotic, but was a deliberate strategy that grew out of a
longer history of collective organization, mobilization, and
self-defense.
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