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Oaxtepec Revisited: The Politics of Mexican Historiography, 1968-1988

1991; University of California Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1052070

1533-8320

Allen Wells,

Politics and Society in Latin America

Nearly twenty years after the third congress of Mexican and North American historians held a conference on Mexican historiography at Oaxtepec, Morelos, a similar gathering of 150 eminent Mexican, North American, and European scholars returned to that site, October 11-14, 1988, to analyze and critically evaluate what had been published in the field over the last two decades. By a simple twist of fate the first reuni6on (held November 4-7, 1969) and the return to Oaxtepec almost twenty years later came on the heels of the two most important events in recent Mexican history, the massacre at Tlatelolco and the July 1988 elections. The significance of these two milestones and the political crises they engendered, not only shaped the lively discussions among ponentes and comentaristas at both conferences, but as the papers collected in Memorias make clear, they also influenced the course of historical writing over the last twenty years.