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Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, And The Afterlives Of The Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
Creating 1968: Art, Architecture, And The Afterlives Of The Mexican Student Movement, Mya B. Dosch
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The student movement of 1968 in Mexico City staked a claim to urban space. Through mass gatherings in the Zócalo, posters in the streets, and marches past prominent landmarks, student activists countered the spectacles of national unity designed in preparation for the 1968 Olympic Games. These competing claims to space came to a head on October 2, 1968, when government agents fired on activists and bystanders gathered in Tlatelolco Square, killing dozens and imprisoning thousands more. Scholars and essayists have since framed 1968 as a watershed moment in twentieth-century Mexican history and the massacre at Tlatelolco as a “wound” …