Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City

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Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City traces the transformations that occurred between 1934 and 1968 in Mexico through the lens of childhood. Countering the dominance of Western European and North American views of childhood, Eileen Ford puts the experiences of children in Latin The usa into their historical, political, and cultural contexts.

Drawing on diverse primary sources ranging from oral histories to photojournalism, Ford reconstructs the emergent and varying meanings of childhood in Mexico City right through a period of changing global attitudes towards childhood, and changing power relations in Mexico at more than one scales, from the circle of relatives to the state. She analyses children’s presence at the silver screen, in radio, and in print media to examine the way that children were constructed within public discourse, identifying the forces that would converge in the 1968 student movement.

This book demonstrates children’s importance within Mexican society as Mexico transitioned from a socialist-inspired revolutionary government to one that embraced industrial capitalism in the Cold War era. This is a fascinating study of an extremely vital, burgeoning population group in Mexico that has in the past been excluded from histories of Mexico’s bid for modernity. Childhood and Modernity in Cold War Mexico City can be crucial reading for students and scholars of Latin American history and the Cold War.

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