{"product_id":"us-central-americans-reconstructing-memories-struggles-and-communities-of-resistance-9780816534067","title":"U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility--yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. \u003ci\u003eU.S. Central Americans\u003c\/i\u003e explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, this is the first book to articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central American communities in the United States. Contributors to this anthology--often 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking 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, as well as literary and cultural analysis. The volume's generational, spatial, urban, indigenous, women's, migrant, and public and cultural memory foci contribute to the development of U.S. Central American thought, theory, and methods. Woven throughout the analysis, migrants' own oral histories offer witness to the struggles of displacement, travel, navigation, and settlement of new terrain. This timely work addresses demographic changes both at universities and in cities throughout the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eU.S. Central Americans\u003c\/i\u003e draws connections to fields of study such as history, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, cultural studies, and literature, as well as diaspora and border studies. The volume is also 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeisy Abrego \u003cbr\u003e Karina O. Alvarado \u003cbr\u003e Maritza E. Cárdenas \u003cbr\u003e Alicia Ivonne Estrada \u003cbr\u003e Ester E. Hernández \u003cbr\u003e Floridalma Boj Lopez \u003cbr\u003e Steven Osuna \u003cbr\u003e Yajaira Padilla \u003cbr\u003e Ana Patricia Rodríguez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarina O. Alvarado\u003c\/b\u003e is a lecturer in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at UCLA. Her articles on U.S. Central American, Chicana\/o and Latina\/o literature have been published in \u003ci\u003eStudies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLatino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlicia Ivonne Estrada\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of Chicana\/o studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research focuses on Maya cultural productions in Guatemala and the United States. She has published articles on the Maya diaspora as well as contemporary Maya literature, film, and radio. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eRomance Notes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLatino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRevista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals and anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEster E. Hernández \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of Chicana\/o and Latina\/o studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She has published in \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEconomy and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, and she has served on the executive boards of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (2010 to present) and Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (2011 to 2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648914231570,"sku":"9780816534067","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8bfb98c3-6d2a-43d8-9323-50940084a638.jpg?v=1733252623","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/us-central-americans-reconstructing-memories-struggles-and-communities-of-resistance-9780816534067","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}