Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympic Games

摘要

Kevin Witherspoon's Before the Eyes of the World: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics is a reading of a global event in a watershed year. Witherspoon's work is not specifically about the student movement and Tlatelolco massacre nor is it about Tommie Smith and John Carlos. Instead, it is a synthesis of the politicisation of the 1968 Olympics and the controversies that continue to swirl around the international competition and the year. A transnational history is difficult, but Witherspoon does a fine job.