Roots of Resistance - 9781477322185

Roots of ResistanceA Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras\nAuthor(s): Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477322185, 978-1477322185\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2021Sara A. Whaley Prize of the National Womens Studies Association (NWSA)\n\n 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.\n\n On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in E.