The revolutionary imaginations of greater Mexico

Chicana/o radicalism, solidarity politics, and Latin American social movements

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The revolutionary imaginations of greater Mexico

Chicana/o radicalism, solidarity politics, and Latin American social movements

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Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other revolutionaries, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and Latin America from 1971 to 1979. Drawing on fifteen years of interviews and archival research, including examinations of declassified government documents from Mexico, this study uncovers encounters between activists and artists across borders while sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin America to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of America in Mexico and the Peronista Youth organizers in Argentina, Alan Eladio Gmez brings to light the transnational nature of leftist organizing by people of Mexican descent in the United States, tracing an array of festivals, assemblies, labor strikes, clandestine organizations, and public protests linked to an international movement of solidarity against imperialism. Taking its title from the "greater Mexico" designation used by Amrico Paredes to describe the present and historical movement of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Chicanas/os back and forth across the US-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated "Greater Mexico" leftists during a pivotal decade. While not all the participants were of one mind politically or personally, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated throughout a broad geographic terrain while forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.

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Table of Contents

Introduction : Chicana/o radicalism, transnational organizing, and social movements in Latin America
Cartographies of the Chicana/o Left
Mexico, anticommunism, and the Chicana/o movement
Nuevo teatro popular across the Américas
"Somos uno porque América es una" : quinto festival de teatro Chicano/primer encuentro Latino Americano de teatro
"Por la reunificación de los pueblos libres de América en su lucha por el socialismo" : Mexican Maoists, Chicana/o revolutionaries, and the Dirty War in Mexico
Puente de cristal (crystal bridge) : Magdalena Mora, the 1975 Tolteca Strike, and insurgent feminism
Epilogue : solidarity/beyond solidarity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/40980904
Library of Congress
E184.M5 G59 2016, E184.M5G59 2016, E184

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 294 pages
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26927737M
ISBN 10
1477309217, 1477310762, 1477310770, 1477310789
ISBN 13
9781477309216, 9781477310762, 9781477310779, 9781477310786
LCCN
2015050871
OCLC/WorldCat
934705729

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