Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
By: Aviva Chomsky
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Restores the region's fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and con…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Very few US Americans can name a single political leader in Central America. We have the privilege of “forgetting"-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"Paradoxically, they needed Indians to be Indians at the same time they needed to define all that was Indian as inferior and in need of Spanish domination."-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"For intellectuals and elites, invisibilizing and forgetting are a way of creating blissful ignorance that allows them to enjoy their privilege without acknowledging its basis in exploitation. Forgetting allows them to avoid the shame that would come from seeing."-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
"Large-scale Central American migration to the United States dates to the civil wars of the 1980s and came primarily from El Salvador and Guatemala. Most came fleeing political violence, and their presence became politically very inconvenient for the Reagan administration, which was seeking to justify its support for these countries’ governments. Others were economic refugees. Either way, the refugees gave the lie to Reagan’s claims of the governments’ legitimacy and right to US support."-Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
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