Our time is now : race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala
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Our time is now : race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala
（Cambridge Latin American studies, 120）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Race and modernity in postcolonial Guatemala
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Glossary: p. 373-375
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: History Will Write Our Names
- I. Translating Modernities: 1. To Live without King or Castle: Maya Patriarchal Liberalism on the Eve of a New Era, 1860-1871
- 2. Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Coffee Planting, Land Privatization, and Liberal Reform, 1871-1885
- 3. Indolence is the Death of Character: The Making of Race and Labor, 1885-1898
- 4. El Q'eq Roams at Night: Plantation Sovereignty and Racial Capitalism, 1898-1914
- II. Aspirations and Anxieties of Unfulfilled Modernities: 5. On the Throne of Minerva: The Making of Urban Modernities, 1908-1920
- 6. Freedom of the Indian: Maya Rights and Citizenship in a Democratic Experiment, 1920-1932
- 7. Possessing Tezulutlan: Splitting Time in Dictatorship, 1931-1939
- 8. Now Owners of Our Land: Nationalism, History, and Memory in Revolution, 1939-1954.
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