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“This comprehensive and innovative study provides a new iteration of theory in the flesh in a Central American diasporic context. Alma celebrates and presents our perspectives and privileges our voices. Alma takes care to include critical context and framing. She credits and codifies the different phases and people that have contributed to the building of Central American studies. She invokes the historic and pioneering work of Chicanx, African American, and BIPOC activists and scholars while naming the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism. She focuses on acts of resistance that portray embodied survivors and practitioners in areas as diverse as cumbia, literature, community medicine, and comedic performance.”—Leticia HernÁndez-Linares, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl: Poems

"""This comprehensive and innovative study provides a new iteration of theory in the flesh in a Central American diasporic context. Alma celebrates and presents our perspectives and privileges our voices. Alma takes care to include critical context and framing. She credits and codifies the different phases and people that have contributed to the building of Central American studies. She invokes the historic and pioneering work of Chicanx, African American, and BIPOC activists and scholars while naming the legacy of white supremacy and colonialism. She focuses on acts of resistance that portray embodied survivors and practitioners in areas as diverse as cumbia, literature, community medicine, and comedic performance.""--Leticia Hernández-Linares, author of Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl: Poems"

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Karina Alma is an assistant professor in the Chicano/a and Central American Studies Department at University of California, Los Angeles, and a co-editor of U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance.

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