This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996

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Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the federal government, all even as crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the connection between the university and the state been so mutable, yet so mutually formative. By showing how the very notion of the middle class in Guatemala emerged from these student movements, this book places an frequently-marginalized region and period on the center of histories of class, protest, and youth movements and provides an entirely new approach to take into accounts the role of universities and student bodies within the formation of liberal democracy all the way through Latin The us.
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