Arise! (eBook)

Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution

Christina Heatherton (Autor)

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2022
336 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96288-0 (ISBN)

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An international history of radical movements and their convergences during the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magon, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai,Arise!reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison universities,Arise!reconstructs how this eras radical organizers found new ways to fight global capitalism.Drawing on prison records, surveillance data, memoirs, oral histories, visual art, and a rich trove of untapped sources, Christina Heathertonconsiders how disparate revolutionary traditions merged in unanticipated alliances. From her unique vantage point, she charts the remarkable impact of the Mexican Revolution as radicals in this critical era forged an anti-racist internationalism from below.

Inhalt

Contents

Introduction: How to Make a Rope

1 • How to Make a Flag: Internationalism and the Pivot of 1848

2 • How to Make a Map: Small Shareholders and Global Radicals in Revolutionary Mexico

3 • How to Make a University: Ricardo Flores Magón and Internationalism in 
     Leavenworth Penitentiary 

4 • How to Make Love: Alexandra Kollontai and the Nationalization of Women 

5 • How to Make a Living: Dorothy Healey and Southern California Struggles for 
     Relief and Revolution

6 • How to Make a Dress: Elizabeth Catlett, Radical Pedagogy, and Cultural Resistance

Conclusion: How to Make History

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Reihe/Serie: American Crossroads
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Activist • American • anti racist • artists • Cultural • Culture • Ethnicity • Farm • Hispanic • Identity • Immigrant • international • Land • Latin • Latina • latine • Latino • Latinx • Mexican Revolution • Mexico • Migrant • Political • Politics • Prison • Race • radicalism • Science • Studies • war • Workers • writers
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96288-5 / 0520962885
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96288-0 / 9780520962880