Dictablanda: Politics, Work, and Culture in Mexico, 1938–1968

Contents
......Page 6
Preface - Paul Gillingham......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Glossary of Institutions and Acronyms......Page 18
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Revolution - Paul Gillingham and Benjamin T. Smith......Page 20
High and Low Politics......Page 64
Chapter 1. The End of the Mexican Revolution? : From Cárdenas to Avila Camacho, 1937– 1941 - Alan Knight......Page 66
Chapter 2. Intransigence, Anticommunism, and Reconciliation: Church/State Relations in Transition - Roberto Blancarte......Page 89
Chapter 3.  Camouflaging the State: The Army and the Limits of Hegemony in PRIísta Mexico, 1940–1960 - Thomas Rath......Page 108
Chapter 4. Strongmen and State Weakness - Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez......Page 127
Chapter 5. Tropical Passion in the Desert: Gonzalo N. Santos and Local Elections in Northern San Luis Potosí, 1943– 1958 - Wil G. Pansters......Page 145
Chapter 6. “We Don’t Have Arms, but We Do Have Balls”: Fraud, Violence, and Popular Agency in Elections - Paul Gillingham......Page 168
Work and Resource Regulation......Page 192
Chapter 7. The Golden Age of Charrismo: Workers, Braceros, and the Political Machinery of Postrevolutionary Mexico - Michael Snodgrass......Page 194
Chapter 8. The Forgotten Jaramillo: Building a Social Base of Support for Authoritarianism in Rural Mexico - Gladys McCormick......Page 215
Chapter 9. Community, Crony Capitalism, and Fortress Conservation in Mexican Forests - Christopher R. Boyer......Page 236
Chapter 10. Advocate or Cacica? Guadalupe Urzúa Flores: Modernizer and Peasant Political Leader in Jalisco - María Teresa Fernández Aceves......Page 255
Chapter 11. Building a State on the Cheap: Taxation, Social Movements, and Politics - Benjamin T. Smith......Page 274
Culture and Ideology......Page 296
Chapter 12. The End of Revolutionary Anthropology? : Notes on Indigenismo - Guillermo de la Peña......Page 298
Chapter 13. Cooling to Cinema and Warming to Television: State Mass Media Policy, 1940–1964 - Andrew Paxman......Page 318
Chapter 14. Pistoleros, Ley Fuga, and Uncertainty in Public Debates about Murder in Twentieth-Century Mexico - Pablo Piccato......Page 340
Chapter 15. Rural Education, Politial Radicalism, and Normalista Identity in Mexico after 1940 - Tanalís Padilla......Page 360
Chapter 16. The Rise of a “National Student Problem” in 1956 - Jaime M. Pensado......Page 379
Final Comments: Contextualizing the Regime: What 1938–1968 Tells Us about Mexico, Power, and Latin America’s Twentieth Century - Jeffrey W. Rubin......Page 398
Select Bibliography......Page 416
Contributors......Page 446
Index......Page 448