Mexico's Unscripted Revolutions

Series Editor's Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

List of Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

1 Revolution or Bust? The Long Sixties in Mexico 11

2 Twilight of the "Perfect Dictatorship": The Democratic Transition, 1977-2000 35

3 Mexico's Partial Embrace of Its Dark- Skinned Majority 59

4 Church(es) and State in Contemporary Mexico 83

5 The Women's Revolution 115

6 Finally, a Democracy Without Adjectives? 144

7 Mexico's Unscripted Revolutions and the "Fourth Transformation" 170

Bibliography 198

Index 212

Stephen E. Lewis is Professor of History at California State University, Chico, where he coordinates the Latin American Studies program. He is the author of Rethinking Mexican Indigenismo: The INI's Coordinating Center in Highland Chiapas and the Fate of a Utopian Project.