U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance

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In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central The us to the US gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central The us has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the US.

While much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, that is the first book to articulate the wealthy and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central American communities in the US. Contributors to this anthology—regularly writing from their own experiences as members of this community—articulate U.S. Central Americans’ unique identities as they also explore the contradictions found within this multivocal group.

Working from within Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Maya communities, contributors to this critical study engage histories and transnational memories of Central Americans in public and intimate spaces through ethnographic, in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews, in addition to literary and cultural analysis. The volume’s generational, spatial, urban, indigenous, women’s, migrant, and public and cultural memory foci give a contribution to the development of U.S. Central American thought, theory, and methods. Woven all through the analysis, migrants’ own oral histories offer witness to the struggles of displacement, go back and forth, navigation, and settlement of new terrain. This timely work addresses demographic changes both at universities and in cities all through the US.

U.S. Central Americans draws connections to fields of study such as history, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, cultural studies, and literature, in addition to diaspora and border studies. The volume may be accessible in size, scope, and language to educators and community and service workers wanting to know about their U.S. Central American families, neighbors, friends, students, employees, and clients.

Contributors:

Leisy Abrego
Karina O. Alvarado
Maritza E. Cárdenas
Alicia Ivonne Estrada
Ester E. Hernández
Floridalma Boj Lopez
Steven Osuna
Yajaira Padilla
Ana Patricia Rodríguez

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