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St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and
Terror in 1968 Mexico
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque, NM
2005, 254 pages
The government-sanctioned killing of student protesters in
Mexico City on October 2, 1968, continues to haunt the city and the
nation. Elaine Carey’s Plaza of Sacrifices is the first
English-language book-length study to situate this watershed event
in an analytic framework. She provides a gendered analysis of the
protest movement that culminated in the killing of as many as 700
students (estimates are still disputed) and looks at the movement’s
ongoing effects on relations between the state and the individual;
between parents and children; and between men and women in
Mexico.
“Este libro es una importante contribución al estudio de la
masacre estudiantil, espescialmente por ser el primero en
publicarse sobre este tema en inglés.”
—Lydia Gil