Rebel Mexico : student unrest and authoritarian political culture during the long sixties / Jaime M. Pensado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pensado, Jaime M., 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Students--Political activity--Mexico--History--20th century.

Students.

Student movements--Mexico--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Political culture.

History.

Students--Political activity.

Mexico.

Political culture--Mexico--History--20th century.

Mexico--Politics and government--1946-1970.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Part I. Prelude to the sixties : youth unrest and resistance to postwar "national identity." Conflicting interpretations of Mexico's "economic miracle"

Fun and politics in postwar Mexico

Part II. The rise of Mexico's "student problem" and the consolidation of "charrismo estudiantil" in the early sixties. "¿Manos extrañas?" : the 1956 student protest and the "crisis" of authority

The reestablishment of authority

The 1958 student movement and the origins of Mexico's New Left

Student unrest and response in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution

Part III. Contested notions of revolution. "No more fun and games": from porristas to porros

Conservative Mexican exceptionalism : body politics and the "wound" of '68.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804786539

0804786534

OCLC:

836261412