| Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua Contributor(s): Rueda, Claudia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1477319301 ISBN-13: 9781477319307 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 378.198 |
| LCCN: 2018054095 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979--one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection--one in which societal groups, from elite housewives to rural laborers, came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary.Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime's repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rueda, Claudia: - Claudia Rueda is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Her previous publications include "Agents of Effervescence: Student Protest and Nicaragua's Post-war Democratic Mobilizations" in The Journal of Social History, and she has coedited the digital archive Onda Latina: The Mexican American Experience. |