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Mexico Beyond 1968 examines the revolutionary organizing and state
repression that characterized Mexico during the 1960s and 1970s.
The massacre of students in Mexico City in October 1968 is often
considered the defining moment of this period. The authors in this
volume challenge the centrality of that moment by looking at the
broader story of struggle and repression across Mexico during this
time. Mexico Beyond 1968 complicates traditional narratives of
youth radicalism and places urban and rural rebellions within the
political context of the nation's Dirty Wars during this period.
The book illustrates how expressions of resistance developed from
the ground up in different regions of Mexico, including Chihuahua,
Guerrero, Jalisco, Mexico City, Puebla, and Nuevo Leon. Movements
in these regions took on a variety of forms, including militant
strikes, land invasions, cross-country marches, independent forums,
popular organizing, and urban and rural guerrilla uprisings. Mexico
Beyond 1968 brings together leading scholars of Mexican studies
today. They share their original research from Mexican archives
partially opened after 2000 and now closed again to scholars, and
they offer analysis of this rich primary source material, including
interviews, political manifestos, newspapers, and human rights
reports. By centering on movements throughout Mexico, Mexico Beyond
1968 underscores the deep-rooted histories of inequality and the
frustrations with a regime that monopolized power for decades. It
challenges the conception of the Mexican state as ""exceptional""
and underscores and refocuses the centrality of the 1968 student
movement. It brings to light the documents and voices of those who
fought repression with revolution and asks us to rethink Mexico's
place in tumultuous times.
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