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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Foreword. The Path back to the Future— the Enduring Legacy of the Revolution xi
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction. Revisiting the Revolution in Contemporary Guatemala 1
7. Part I. New Regions
8. Chapter 1. “To Wrench Our Rights from La Frutera”. Race, Labor, and Redefining National Belonging on the Caribbean Coast 35
9. Chapter 2. The Coastal Laboratory. Milpa, Conservation, and Agrarian Reform 57
10. Chapter 3. Arévalo’s Tomorrowland. The Revolutionary Crusade to Build and Defend the New Guatemala on the Petén Frontier 85
11. Part II. New Frames
12. Chapter 4. The “Indigenous Problem,” Cold War US Anthropology, and Revolutionary Nationalism. New Approaches to Racial Thinking and Indigeneity in Guatemala 107
13. Chapter 5. Youths and Juan José Arévalo’s Democratic Government in Guatemala, 1945–1951 125
14. Chapter 6. Rethinking Representation and Periodization in Guatemala’s Democratic Experiment 145
15. Part III. New Actors
16. Chapter 7. “A pack of cigarettes or some soap” “Race,” Security, International Public Health, and Human Medical Experimentation during Guatemala’s October Revolution 175
17. Chapter 8. “Una obra revolucionaria” Indigenismo and the Guatemalan Revolution, 1944–1954 199
18. Part IV. New Memories
19. Chapter 9. Water Power Promise Revisiting Revolutionary DIY 225
20. Chapter 10. Reclaiming a Revolution Memory as Possibility in Urban Guatemala 253
21. Selected Bibliography 280
22. Contributors 287
23. Index 290