Suyapa G Portillo Villeda

Roots of Resistance

A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A first-of-its-kind study of the working-class culture of resistance on the Honduran North Coast and the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention at the onset of the Cold War, examining gender, race, and place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781477322185
• ISBN-10: 1477322183
• Artikelnr.: 59084329

Autorenporträt

Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda is an associate professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Transnational Studies at Pitzer College and a member of the intercollegiate department of Chicanx Latinx studies at the Claremont Colleges Consortium.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations and Acronyms
Glossary
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Honduran Workers—New Voices, Old Memories
1. Intersecting Projects: Contested Visions for the North Coast
2. Revolutionary Antecedents to the 1954 Strike: Liberals, Rebels, and
Radicals
3. Life and Labor in Banana Fincas
4. The Making of a Campeño and Campeña Culture: Race, Gender, and
Resistance
5. “Mujeres que cuidaban hombres y vendedoras ambulantes”: Gendered Roles
and Informal Work on the North Coast
6. ¡La Gran Huelga del 1954! Labor Organizing in the Banana Labor Camps
7. Contemporary Movement Leaders Reflect on the Legacy of the 1954 Strike
Conclusion
Appendices
A. Los 30 Puntos: Tela Railroad Company Worker Demands
B. Central Strike Committee 7 Demands of Company and Honduran Government,
May 17, 1954
C. Standard Fruit Company Worker Strike Demands, May 7, 1954
D. Signed Contract between Standard Fruit Company, Agúan Valley, the
Members of the Central Strike for Labor Relations
E. Program of the Honduran Revolutionary Democratic Party
F. Brief Selected Chronology of Labor and Political Events in Honduras
G. Table of Early Signs of Worker Actions and Strikes in Honduras
Notes
Bibliography
Index