1968 Student
Popular Movement

Bibliography

Films

Rojo Amanecer, dirigida por Jorge Fons, México, 1989

Tlatelolco, las claves de la Masacre (A Canal 6 de Julio documentary)
See also the review of this important recent video by Mireya Cuéllar, “La verdad, única cura para el 68”.

El grito, dirigida por Leobardo López Aretche, México, 1968.

Mural efímero, realizada por Raul Kamffer, México 1968-1973.

1968 en memoria de José Revueltas, realizada por Oscar Menendez, México, 1968.

Amnistía, realizada por Carlos Mendoza, México, 1978.

El infierno de todos tan temido, realizada por Sergio Olhovich, México, 1979.

2 de octubre, Aquí en México, realizada por Oscar Menendez, México, 1968-1970.

UNAM: La fuerza de la razón, realizada por Carlos Mendoza, México, 1987.

Websites

Special Issue, No. 12 of Razón y Palabra journal (12: 3 December 1998) dealing with 1968.

Movimiento ’68 Protagonistas
Good varied website.

Movimiento Estudiantil, 1968
Very good website on 1968 with posters and songs.

Canciones del 68

Volantes y Documentos 1968

Special October 1968 issue of ¿Por qué? magazine (entire issue reproduced)

“Archivos Secretos del 68, a la UNAM”
Documents of Fernando López Arias.

Shock Wave: Part 4- Annihilating Student Revolt - Mexico 1968
by Christian Erickson

Powerpoint presentation on 1968 - evolution, background, cultural dimensions
Good photos. Designed and arranged by Rachel Kram. (2002)

Octavio Paz essay on 1968 “Revuelta, revolución, rebelión... Olimpiada y Tlatelolco”
(in 2 parts - Spanish) Part 1 Part 2

Carr, Barry, “The Many Meanings of 1968 in Mexico: The Student-Popular Movement Thirty Years After 1968”
Short revisionist essay on the significance of 1968 which appeared originally in Enfoque magazine.

*** Fernández, Salvador C., “Textual Politics and the Tlatelolco Massacre in ‘A la salud de la serpiente’ by Gustavo Sainz”

Extracts from Elena Poniatowska's book on Tlatelolco (in Spanish)

Tlatelolco 1968 (an electronic dossier in Spanish with photos, extracts from eye-witnesses etc)

Tlatelolco Massacre: Declassified U.S. Documents on Mexico and the Events of 1968
By Kate Doyle, Director, Mexico Documentation Project, National Security Archive

Various articles on 1968 in Spanish by Carlos Monsiváis

“Méjico, 1968: Matanza en la Plaza de las Tres Culturas (Tlatelolco)”
Dossier of chronology, testimonies and photos from the Spanish paper De Verdad, Jan 2002.

“Tlatelolco: Then and Now”
Links to articles on 1968 at Tlatelolco.

*** Tlatelolco Massacre October 2,1968
Dossier of good photos plus useful links. Compiled by Rose Hulman.

Chronology of Student Movement (in 3 parts in Spanish)

*** Torres, Angélica Gutiérrez, “El Movimiento Estudiantil de 1968”

Books and Articles

*** Excellent bibliography of over 70 items published in the Mexican monthly magazine Memoria.

Arriola, Carlos, El Movimento Estudiantil Mexicano En La Prensa Francesa, Mexico City, El Colegio De México, 1979.

Bixler, Jacqueline E., “Re-Membering the Past: Memory-Theatre and Tlateloco”, Latin American Research Review, Spring 2002, Vol. 37:2.

Blanco Moheno, Roberto, Tlatelolco: historia de una infamia (Mexico: Diana, 1969).

Brewster, Claire, “The Student Movement of 1968 and the Mexican Press: An Examination of Excélsior and Siempre”, Bulletin of Latin American Research, 21.2 (2002), 171-190.

Jean Franco, “The Critique of the Pyramid and Mexican Narrative after 1968” in Rose Mine, ed., Latin American Fiction Today, Takoma Park, MD: Hispamerica, 1982, 49-60.

Guevara Niebla, Gilberto, La democracia en la calle. Cronica del movimiento estudiantil mexicano, Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988.

Gyurko, Lanin A. “The Literary Response to Nonoalco-Tlatelolco” Contemporary Latin American Culture: Unity and Diversity, Ed. C. Gail Gunterman, Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, 1984. 45–77.

Hernandez, Salvador, El PRI y El movimiento estudiantil de 1968, Mexico City, Ediciones “El Caballito”, 1971.

Loaeza, Soledad., “Mexico 1968: Los orígenes de la transición”, Foro Internacional [Mexico] 1989 30(1): 66-92.

Mabry, Donald, The Mexican University and the State: Student Conflicts, 1910-1971, College Station, Texas, Texas A&M Press, 1982.

Martinez-Nateras, Arturo, ed, No Queremos Apertura, Queremos Revolución, Mexico City, Ediciones De Cultura Popular, S.A., 1972.

Monsiváis, Carlos, Días de guardar (Mexico: Asociados, 1970).

Poniatowska, Elena, La noche del silencio.

Ramirez, Ramón, El movimiento estudiantil de México, Mexico, Era, 1969.

Revueltas, José, Mexico 1968: juventud y revolución, Mexico, Era, 1968.

Scherer Garcia, Julio & Monsiváis, Carlos, Parte de guerra: Tlatelolco, 1968.

Shapira, Yoram, “Mexico: The Impact of the 1968 Student Protest on Echeverría’s Reformism”, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1977, 19(4): 557-580.

Sorensen, Diana, “Tlatelolco 1968: Paz and Poniatowska on Law and Violence”, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Summer 2002.

Stevens, Evelyn, Protest and Response, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974.

Taibo II, Paco Ignacio, '68, Mexico: Planeta, 1998.

Unzueta, Gerardo, Sobre el problema estudiantil-popular-Cartas desde la prisión, Mexico City, Fondo De Cultura Popular, 1969.

Volpi, Jorge, La imaginación y el poder: Una historia intelectual de 1968, Mexico, Era, 1998.

Wences-Reza, Rosalio, El movimiento estudiantil y Los problemas nacionales, Mexico City: Editorial Nuestro Tiempo, S.A., 1971.

Young, Dolly J, “Mexican Literary Reactions to Tlatelolco 1968”, Latin American Research Review 20.2 (1985), 71–85.

Zermeño, Sergio, México: una democracia utópica: el movimiento estudiantil de '68, Mexico, Siglo XXI, 1978.

Zolov, Eric, Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture, Berkeley, University of California Press, c1999.

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