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...David Carey, Jr.; Walter E. Little In a nation that often silences them, Maya in Guatemala are increasingly expressing themselves through public murals. When teachers, artists, students, and other residents of San Juan Comalapa painted the history of their nation, town, and people, they portrayed...

...Maya C. Sandler Abstract This article explores the creation of the Over 60 Health Clinic in Berkeley, California, during the mid-1970s. Developed by a local network of the activist group Gray Panthers, the clinic offered screening and preventive care to elderly clients and was intended to serve...

... with Chac-mol,13 undoubtedly enhanced his comprehension of indigenous people. However, his ideology regarding indigenous people was also informed by his accounting of the tragic impact of colonialism and other abuses wielded against the Maya in the nineteenth...

... Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives. Xkib’ij kan qate’ qatata’ (2001), Ojer taq tzijob’äl kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People) (2004), and Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Kaqchikel as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875 – 1970 (2006). Michael...

... or departure processes among the colonial Maya in southern Mexico: flight (”the escape of Indians from colonial rule across the frontier into unpacified territory drift (“migration to other com- inunities within the area under more or less effective Spanish domina- tion and dispersal...

... frequently returned to Dominga — Denise Becker — when debating whether reconciliation was ever pos- sible for victims and their family members, and when discussing identity. Some of them looked farther into the Río Negro massacre and Maya resistance to a World Bank – funded dam. The documentary Botín...

... – 30, 105 – 72. Suggested: Alicia Barabas, ed., Religiosidad y resistencia indígenas hacia el fin del milenio (Indigenous Religiosity and Resistance at the End of the Millenium) (Quito: Abya-Yala, 1994). Week 6 Feb. 15 The Indian kings among the Maya Readings: Victoria Bricker, The Indian...

... in the Ixil Tozuns of Guatemala examines the effects of the violence on the Ixil, a Maya ethnic group whose communities suffered the worst army reprisals. On many lev- els it is a first-rate piece of ethnographical research. He offers insights into the spread of evangelical Protestantism and the resur...

... support; and Nelson’s brilliant use of the metaphor of Mayan activists as “hackers” as a “countermea- sure to the trope of consigning the Maya to the romantic premod- ern” (302). We narrowed the terms of indigenous culture to four overlapping definitions: racialist (determined by a set percentage...

... editorial collective. Pete Sigal is associate professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles. He is author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (2000). He is the editor of Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America...

...), a justification for colonial subordination of racial and cultural inferiors presumed to lack the fitness for self-­rule. As Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz have demonstrated in two collections of essays on memory, history, and public space that they have edited, there is a diverse and complex...

... a separate task. How did the world depicted by Stern so quickly become the one we encoun- ter with Wilson? Neither book suggests an answer. Stern’s India resembles those of Linda Colley or Maya Jasanoff: a world in which European agents did not hive themselves off from local society but instead...

..., Mansour Bonakdarian, and Sally Charnow Notes We are grateful to Professor Justin A. McCarthy for providing the map of the Middle East and North Africa and thank Dave Kinkela, Dan Opler, and Lisa Maya Knauer for their assistance...

... stories becomes in the long run an invaluable reservoir of memory for the historian which allows us to juxtapose life in the segregated south-for example, Anne Moody RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 57~268-2731993 THE PAST IN PRINT/269 or Maya...

... and Education Center director Rania Masri, the Saint Joseph’s University professor of political science Bassam Haddad, the New York – based filmmaker Suzy Salamy, and the Georgetown University graduate student Maya Mikdashi — the film offers the viewer little more than its title suggests: the mood...

... Invention . 56. Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White , 164–69. 57. Bratton , “The LAPD Fights Crime, Not Illegal Immigration.” 58. Maya , “To Serve and Protect or to Betray and Neglect,” 1662. Maya notes that at the time Special Order 40 was passed, the LAPD was also facing...

... was not as conscious as those people like Maya Angelou and Tom Fields who actu- ally went over there. I’d have to be the first one to say that. They were miles ahead of me in terms of Africa. Because, remember, I was coming around the Horn, because I...

..., in large measure, is that very few of the protagonists of this debate are gen- uinely interested in the daily reality of the Maya, their women, their survivors, or even their pain and suffering. What they are truly concerned about are the profes- sional benefits...

... (these were conducted on the quarter system), I might try to add more in-class student reading presentations, film critiques, and discussion groups. I will incorporate new English language video materials on the Chiapas rebellion such as Saul Landau’s ”The Sixth Sun: Maya Uprising in Chiapas...

... of tropical flora and fauna and his three great series of abstract and figurative Wainwright | New Provincialisms  209 paintings: a body of canvases from 1969 to 1981 focusing on the chamber and orches- tral music of Dmitry Shostakovich; his Olmec-Maya series (1981...