Heather Vrana. This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944–1996. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 352 pp.

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sometimes overreaches in his evaluation. Among several such examples, the most notable is his claim that "each new building at UT advanced the cause of segregation in higher education and in Austin" (p. 62). This good book is marred by a few errors. Chapter 4 kicks off with a reference to "UCB president Clark Kerr" (p. 119) when no such position existed, although Winling later explains the distinction between chancellor at Berkeley and UC president (Kerr moved from the former to the latter office in 1958). Elsewhere, Winling states, "At the end of the nineteenth century, women's attendance at American institutions of higher education was rare, radical, and highly constrained" (p. 60).