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The Argentine silent majority :

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0822355965

(Number (ISBN

0822356015

(Number (ISBN

9780822355960

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9780822356011

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The Argentine silent majority :

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[Book]

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middle classes, politics, violence, and memory in the seventies /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sebastián Carassai.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2014]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 357 pages ;

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24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index.

Text of Note

Political culture -- Waiting for violence -- Social violence (1969-1974) -- Armed violence (1970-1977) -- State violence (1974-1982) -- A model kit -- Desire and violence (1969-1975).

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In The Argentine Silent Majority, Sebastián Carassai focuses on middle-class culture and politics in Argentina from the end of the 1960s. By considering the memories and ideologies of middle-class Argentines who did not get involved in political struggles, he expands thinking about the era to the larger society that activists and direct victims of state terror were part of and claimed to represent. Carassai conducted interviews with 200 people, mostly middle-class non-activists, but also journalists, politicians, scholars, and artists who were politically active during the 1970s. To account for local differences, he interviewed people from three sites: Buenos Aires; Tucumán, a provincial capital rocked by political turbulence; and Correa, a small town which did not experience great upheaval. He showed the middle-class non-activists a documentary featuring images and audio of popular culture and events from the 1970s. In the end Carassai concludes that, during the years of la violencia, members of the middle-class silent majority at times found themselves in agreement with radical sectors as they too opposed military authoritarianism but they never embraced a revolutionary program such as that put forward by the guerrilla groups or the most militant sectors of the labor movement.

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Duke Univ Pr, Attn: Michael Box 90660, Durham, NC, USA, 27708, (919)6885134

Title

Argentine silent majority

Middle class-- Political activity-- Argentina-- History-- 20th century.

Political violence-- Argentina-- History-- 20th century.

Middle class-- Political activity.

Political violence.

Politics and government

Argentina, History, 1955-1983.

Argentina, Politics and government, 1955-1983.

Argentina.

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Carassai, Sebastián,1972-

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20200822140300.0

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