Youth Emotions and Identities in Politics. The 1915 Generation of Mexican University Students.

This article focuses on a group of Mexican university students born between 1894 and 1902, that began to shape a new political and cultural vanguard in Mexico around 1915. Among the members of that youth circle, Manuel Gómez Morín, Luis Enrique Erro, Ignacio Chávez, Carlos Pellicer, Narciso Bassols, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Alfonso Caso, Jorge Prieto Laurens and Luis Garrido stood out. With little age difference between them, they burst into public life during an extremely fertile historical era for the creation and development of the institutions that shaped modern Mexico. In this context it was possible that in the search for their own paths they made contributions of considerable relevance at the political, social, and cultural level of the country. The reconstruction of their social biographies allows us to identify the experiences of their childhood and youth that contributed to shaping certain ways of being and behaving in life. This experiential substrate refers us to the emotions which permeated their passionate endeavors pursuits, as well as the formation of a collective identity built through the interaction they maintained during a cardinal period in Mexican history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]