Photopoetics at Tlatelolco: Afterimages of Mexico, 1968

by Samuel Steinberg

In the months leading up to the 1968 Olympic games in Mexico City, students took to the streets, calling for greater democratization and decrying crackdowns on political resistance by the ruling PRI party. During a mass meeting held at the Plaza of the Three Cultures in the Tlatelolco neighborhood, paramilitary forces opened fire on the gathering. The death toll from the massacre remains a contested number, ranging from an official count in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477307486
• ISBN13: 9781477307489
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"