Defining the Space of Mexico’68: Heroic Masculinity in the Prison and “Women” in the Streets

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who has collaborated will tell you—is in some ways a lot more work than going it alone, but also certainly more rewarding. Partial funding came from the University of Chicago and the University of South Carolina. We thank Mary Kay Vaughan and the two HAHR readers for their extraordinarily provocative comments and suggestions. We benefited from John French’s invitation to present this work at Duke University’s Latin American Labor History seminar in April 2002, where we especially gained from comments by Susan Gauss, Jeffrey Gould, Mark Alan Healy, Daniel James, Jocelyn Olcott, and Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes. We also thank the participants of the other seminars and conferences where we have presented portions of this work: the Five Colleges Mexican Studies Workshop (2002), especially Pamela Voekel, Kristin Pesola, and Velma Garcia; the Seminario Nacional Movimientos Estudiantiles Mexicanos en el Siglo XX (UNAM, Mexico, D.F., 2001), especially Silvia Diaz Escoto; the 2001 LASA meetings, in particular, Ann Blum, Elizabeth Maier, Edward McCaughan, Barry Carr, and Eric Zolov; Eileen Boris, the commentator on our panel at the 2001 Social Science History Association meetings; and the 2002 European Social Science History meetings. We thank Kathryn Litherland for extraordinary editing, Jeanne Barker Nunn for editorial assistance, Jodi Barnes for research assistance, and John Coatsworth, Peter Guardino, and Friedrich Katz for initial and ongoing encouragement. Our initial research in 1989 was facilitated by Sigfrido Reyes, Sara Lovera, Elena Urrutia, and Ilan Semo. While in Mexico (1999), we appreciated support from Gabriela Cano, Graciela Hernandez, Francisco Zapata, and El Colegio de Mexico. Most of all, we thank Mari Carmen Fernandez for over a dozen years of hospitality, friendship, and incisive feedback, as well as all the people with whom we conducted oral histories in Mexico City. Without their willingness to discuss their experiences, we would have no project.