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... to learning from the activist's reflections on figures and events of clear historical significance—Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), Peru's 1969 agrarian reform, Abimael Guzmán and the rise of Shining Path, to name a few—readers become witnesses to Llamojha...

...Michael J. Francis Chilean Voices: Activists Describe Their Experiences of the Popular Unity Period . By Henfrey Colin and Sorj Bernando . Atlantic Highlands, N.J. , 1977 . Humanities Press . Map. Illustrations. Chronology . Pp. 196 . Cloth. $13.00 . Paper. $8.25...

...María Teresa Fernández Aceves Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942 . By Ramírez Cristina Devereaux . Foreword by Royster Jacqueline Jones . Translations by Pouwels Joel Bollinger and Devereaux Neil J. . Tucson...

...Bonar L. Hernández Sandoval [email protected] Blessed Are the Activists: Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala . By Michael J. Cangemi . Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2024 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 228...

... Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina's International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas . By Ernesto Semán . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2017 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 314 pp. Paper , $26.95 . ...

...Michael Stone From Colony to Nation: Women Activists and the Gendering of Politics in Belize, 1912 – 1982 . By Macpherson Anne S. . Engendering Latin America . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2007 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xviii , 385 pp...

... a strong political presence through the decades when it was declared illegal. And yet favela activists rarely acknowledge communist involvement in their struggles, and Communist activists and scholars grant such movements only a marginal, instrumental role in the Brazilian Communist movement. This dance...

... authoritarianism rather than being the result of a transition to democracy. The relationship with homophobic Peronists and left-wing traditions was, paradoxically, crucial for the emergence of the FLH. Most homosexual activists came from the Left, and they understood homosexual liberation as one aspect...

...Marlen Rosas Abstract From the 1930s to the 1960s, Indigenous activists in Ecuador unsettled the prevailing paradigm of acculturation, practicing literacies that advanced their capacities for political mobilization around labor and land rights. Leaders on the haciendas of Cayambe allied...

... organizations transformed the legal, social, and political identities of Chilean empleadas (servants). Building on associations formed by the Young Catholic Worker in the early 1950s, household worker activists forged key political alliances in their struggle for increased labor protection prior to the 1973...

... activists engaged in diverse efforts to organize an effective guerrilla opposition to the authoritarian regime. Within their ranks, some militants who had homosexual desires faced a hegemonic culture of the left that considered same-sex sexuality a reflection of “bourgeois decadence,” an immoral aberration...

...Marc Becker Abstract Activists in Ecuador established in the 1940s what have come to be remembered as the country's first Indigenous-run bilingual schools. Or at least this is the image that their founders presented when reflecting back on their achievements years later, and what has become fixed...

...—sex workers. The experiments served the purposes of the Guatemalan Revolution (1944–54), a democratizing moment when doctors and political leaders aimed to spur national regeneration. This essay argues that Guatemala's activist state was a critical enabling factor granting US researchers access...

... and social roles. In the decades following Mexico’s revolution, activists in Mexico’s child health and protection movement condemned child labor on the grounds that it harmed young workers and led to crime, while a new slate of laws forbade child labor and restricted the kinds of work that adolescents could...

... several major guerrilla groups against one of Latin America’s historically most stable but rapidly changing oligarchic two-party democracies. While overly modest in recounting her background as a human rights activist, author Winifred Tate is clearly qualified to deal with this topic. Following almost two...

.... The book also serves as a kind of defense of the Ecuadorian Left. Rather than being paternalistic or assimilationist, Becker argues that leftists promoted ethnic ideals, identities, and rights in close concert with rural indigenous activists. To sustain these claims, Becker focuses attention on Ecuador’s...

... sense of their dignity and of their capacity to claim their rights. The heart of the book rests on the potential of testimonial as a window into social movements and as a way for the author, as an activist scholar, to support APPO. As a foreign researcher, she is “prohibited from producing public...

... people), like the Asociacio´ n Nacional de Afrocolombianos Desplazados (AFRODES) activist Mar´ a Elena and current vice president Francia Ma´rquez, arguing that the struggle for Black citizenship in Colombia included demanding rights to national inclusion and claiming African diasporic belonging (p. 5...

...; (3) Peruvian ideas of race fundamentally shaped bilingual education and multiculturalism; (4) contradictory actors participated in the construction of bilingualism, such as Quechua-speaking mothers who sought bilingual schools so that their children would learn Spanish, or mestizo activists who...

... of female activists mobilized by men by considering how politically plural groups of women organized in 1959 and 1960 to articulate women's rights as part of the revolutionary project. In this way, she argues that anti-Batista female activists evolved from women as urban protesters, who later mobilized...