Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes

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This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Mexico and the Caribbean (Colin Clarke)....Pages 1-43 Mexico in 1966 (Colin Clarke)....Pages 45-82 The Caribbean in the Late 1960s (Colin Clarke)....Pages 83-141 The Caribbean in the Early 1970s (Colin Clarke)....Pages 143-182 Oaxaca, Mexico, and Barbuda in 1978 (Colin Clarke)....Pages 183-232 Back Matter ....Pages 233-261