To Rise in Darkness: Revolution, Repression, and Memory in El Salvador, 1920–1932Duke University Press, 9 Tem 2008 - 396 sayfa To Rise in Darkness offers a new perspective on a defining moment in modern Central American history. In January 1932 thousands of indigenous and ladino (non-Indian) rural laborers, provoked by electoral fraud and the repression of strikes, rose up and took control of several municipalities in central and western El Salvador. Within days the military and civilian militias retook the towns and executed thousands of people, most of whom were indigenous. This event, known as la Matanza (the massacre), has received relatively little scholarly attention. In To Rise in Darkness, Jeffrey L. Gould and Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago investigate memories of the massacre and its long-term cultural and political consequences. Gould conducted more than two hundred interviews with survivors of la Matanza and their descendants. He and Lauria-Santiago combine individual accounts with documentary sources from archives in El Salvador, Guatemala, Washington, London, and Moscow. They describe the political, economic, and cultural landscape of El Salvador during the 1920s and early 1930s, and offer a detailed narrative of the uprising and massacre. The authors challenge the prevailing idea that the Communist organizers of the uprising and the rural Indians who participated in it were two distinct groups. Gould and Lauria-Santiago demonstrate that many Communist militants were themselves rural Indians, some of whom had been union activists on the coffee plantations for several years prior to the rebellion. Moreover, by meticulously documenting local variations in class relations, ethnic identity, and political commitment, the authors show that those groups considered “Indian” in western El Salvador were far from homogeneous. The united revolutionary movement of January 1932 emerged out of significant cultural difference and conflict. |
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... . He took Reynaldo aside after dinner : " Look , don't you ever get involved in any organization . I mean it . Never ! Remember what happened with el Comunismo ! " X Preface Juan Antonio later told him a different story Preface.
... organization , called las Fuerzas Populares de Liberación . Thinking about how his father had warned him , Reynaldo thought that " maybe " they had been " asking for trouble . " But this shooting was madness . Another of his compañeros ...
... organizations in Indian com- munities . As a result , he had acquired a wide range of contacts throughout the cantones of Nahuizalco , and in other areas he demonstrated a marked capacity to communicate empathetically with strangers who ...
... organization . Scholars have rarely identified the colonos as a potential revolutionary subject . Our book sug- gests that to fruitfully study the radical or revolutionary potential of a par- ticular group , we must root it and its ...
... organized effectively among both field and mill workers in the sugar industry . They forged alliances between white and black Cuban workers , including many immigrants from other Caribbean islands.1 18 In both El Salvador and Cuba ...
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Politics and Labor in the 1920s | 32 |
The Social Geography and Culture of Mobilization | 63 |
Ethnic Conflict and Mestizajein Western Salvador 19141931 | 99 |
Repression and Radicalization September 1931January 1932 | 132 |
The Insurrection of January 1932 | 170 |
The Counter revolutionary Massacres | 209 |
The Political and Cultural Consequences of 1932 | 240 |
Epilogue | 275 |
Afterword | 281 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 375 |
Index | 387 |