Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain

Louie Dean Valencia-García is Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University, USA and Senior Fellow at the London-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right. He has taught at Harvard University, USA, and held fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the United States Library of Congress and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. He is Co-Chair of the Critical European Studies Research Network for the Council for European Studies at Columbia University, USA, and is a Research Editor for the CES’s monthly digital journal, EuropeNow.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsPreface: Indignant YouthAn Introduction1. Making a Scene2. To Study is to Serve Spain3. The Revolt of the Youth4. Truth, Justice and the American Way in Spain5. The Penetration of Franco’s Spain6. Clashing with Fascism7. Madrid Kills MeEpilogue: Today: Uncertain TimesBibliographyIndex

[Valencia-García’s] informative work contributes a significant dimension to the study of youth culture during Franco’s dictatorship … [His] approach in contrasting the image of the fascist youth as encoded in the regime’s school curriculum with the realistic image of the young Spaniards living under a fascist state also provides an essential reference for scholars whose works focus on the relationships between politics, ideology, and the production of texts for children and young people.