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Informationen zum Autor Joseph U. Lenti is an assistant professor of Latin American history at Eastern Washington University. Klappentext Joseph U. Lenti is an assistant professor of Latin American history at Eastern Washington University. ¿ Zusammenfassung A tale of sin and redemption! Joseph U. Lenti's Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district on October 2-3! 1968! sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class! a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: A Revolution to Redeem the Nation 1. Tlatelolco!: The Need for Revolutionary Redemption 2. On the Redeemer’s Trail: Luis Echeverría and the Campaign of the Revolution 3. “The Government of the Republic Thus Pays Its Debt”: “Mexicanizing” the National Patrimony 4. Restoring the Revolutionary Corpus: Unity, Class, and Paternalism in Tripartite Relations 5. “Años de Huelga”: Business and State-Organized Labor Conflict in Monterrey, 1973–74 6. “The False Redemption of May 1”: Testing the State’s Alleged Preference for Organized Labor 7. “Beautiful Little Compañeras” and “Shameful Spectacles”: Gender Complementarity in the Workers’ Movement 8. “Yes This Fist Is Felt!”: The Independentista Challenge and Repression 9. “The Mexican [Redeemer] Never Asks for Forgiveness!”: Sectoral Friction in the Late Echeverría Presidency Conclusion: The Revolution Redeemed (But for Whom?) Epilogue: Death and Resurrection Notes Bibliography Index
