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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin American

Andrew Grant Wood. Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers, and Urban Protest in Veracruz 1870–1927. (Latin American Silhouettes: Studies in History and Culture.) Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources. 2001. Pp. xxiii, 239. $60.00.

During the early twentieth century, the steamy tropical port of Veracruz, Mexico's window to the world, became a font of political and cultural fermentation from which sprang a heady brew of everything from Spanish anarchist intrigue to the music of Toña la Negra and Agustín Lara. Andrew Grant Wood's new study examines a fascinating episode in Veracruz's history: the rise and fall of the radical tenants' movement that took center stage in Mexican politics during the 1920s. In 1922, 40,000 inquilinos from Veracruz's squalid tenements, headed by the charismatic anarchist Herón Proal, launched a surprisingly effective rent strike. Not only did they interrupt the collection of rents, they also forced populist governor Adalberto Tejedna to draft the unique renters' law of 1923, which provided for rent reduction and the development of workers' settlements. 1

Wood interprets the tenants' revolt as a response to the disruptive process of Porfirian modernization and revolutionary strife, which caused overpopulation, skyrocketing rents, and urban squalor. In addition, the Yankee occupation of 1914 had fostered an explosive combination of xenophobia, patriotism, and rising expectations among the city's poor. Women, including prostitutes, played a key role in mobilizing against the exorbitant rents imposed by slumlords and property managers, many of whom were Spaniards and Cubans. . . .

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