Victoria Langland. Speaking of Flowers

The explosion of higher education in many areas of the world, including Mexico and Brazil, following the end of World War II created a large student body aware of itself, frustrated with their schools' crowded conditions and inadequate educational infrastructure, and linked internationally and generationally by habits of consumption and the questioning of authority. Privilege and protest often have gone hand in hand. Not surprisingly, the long 1960s was a time when Latin American students, along with their counterparts around the world, played a particularly significant and visible political role. And we are fortunate to have these two new important monographs by Victoria Langland and Jaime M. Pensado to complicate our understanding of young men and women whose activism is too often viewed through a sentimental lens. Mexico's impressive economic growth after the 1940s did not benefit everyone, but it certainly created educational opportunities for both the middle class and...

Authoritarianism · Consumption (sociology) · Democracy · Economic history · Latin Americans · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Privilege (computing) · Social science · Sociology · Unrest · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies