Racist Discourse and Genocide / Discursos Racistas y Genocidio (Guatemalan genocide conference)

The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research shares this panel from its 2016 international conference "A 'Conflict'? Genocide and Resistance in Guatemala," featuring the following scholars and topics:

Brigittine M. French (Anthropology, Grinnell College):
“Rios Montt’s Public Discourse and the Cultural Logic of the Guatemalan Genocide”
(“Discursos públicos de Ríos Montt y la lógica cultural del genocidio en Guatemala”)

Jorge Ramon Gonzalez-Ponciano (Anthropology, UNAM/Stanford University):
“El racismo y el “problema indígena” en la prensa guatemalteca antes y después del genocidio”
(“Racism and the ‘Indian Problem’ in the Guatemalan Press Before and After the Genocide”)

The panel is chaired by Norma Chinchilla (Sociology, CSU Long Beach).

The conference was organized by Wolf Gruner, Founding Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, and Victoria Sanford, Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies (CfHRPS) at Lehman College, City University of New York. It was cosponsored by the USC Latino Alumni Association and USC Dornsife School of International Relations. The conference was supported by Colectivo Guatemalteco en Los Angeles, CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles), Villa Aurora, Program for Torture Victims, FAFG (Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala/Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala).

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