Work in progress....

I've e-mailed my grandpa expliaing my project and asking for his help--no word back from him yet.  Have also been looking through old family photos and trying to gauge what years they might have been taken--might ask for the help of a photography major.  And studying up on my Guatemalan history.

Getting Started on the Bibliography.....

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Carey, Jr., David. "Hard Working, Orderly Little Women": Mayan Vendors and Marketplace

            Struggles in Early-Twentieth-Century Guatemala." Ethnohistory 55.4 (2008): 579-607      

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Clarence-Smith, W G, and Steven Topik. The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia and Latin

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Cullather, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala,

 1952-1954. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. Print.

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Fox, John W. Quiche Conquest: Centralism and Regionalism in Highland Guatemalan State

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Galeano, Eduardo H. Guatemala: Occupied Country. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1969.

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Gleijeses, Piero. Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954.

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Goldin, Liliana R. Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala. Tucson: University of

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Grandin, Greg. "Everyday forms of state decomposition: Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, 1954."

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Immerman, Richard H. The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention. Austin:

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            1976. Print.

Jones, Chester L. Guatemala, Past and Present. New York: Russell & Russell, 1966. Print.

McCreery, David. Rural Guatemala, 1760-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.

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Melville, Thomas, and Marjorie Melville. Guatemala: the Politics of Land Ownership. New

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Striffler, Steve, and Mark Moberg. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the

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Research Ethics

Well, I think getting consent will be fairly easy for me (after all, it's my family).  And my research will not include any human experimentation, just asking questions, so that simplifies things quite a bit.  I think the hardest part is going to be getting my family to talk openly and truthfully.  And as far as I know, there won't be any risks involved (my grandpa might think otherwise).  I do wonder how the confidentiality aspect will come into play, if at all...

Terse Proposal

My great grandmother and grandfather emigrated from Guatemala to the United States sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s.  I’ve heard some stories growing up about their travels and what life was like for them in Central America.  However, I do not have the complete picture, and I propose for my final project to discover, through interviews with family members, the whole story.  Not only will I focus on my great grandmother and grandfather, but also what life was like for them in Guatemala at the time, why they decided to leave, and how they managed leaving.  I would also like to look into the history of Guatemala from the 1920s to the 1954 CIA-led ousting of President Arbenz.