Overview

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 Gómez 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 Américo 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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Author:   Alan Eladio Gómez
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781477309216

ISBN 10:   1477309217
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   06 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Chicana/o Radicalism, Transnational Organizing, and Social Movements in Latin America Chapter 1. Cartographies of the Chicana/o Left Chapter 2. Mexico, Anticommunism, and the Chicana/o Movement Chapter 3. Nuevo Teatro Popular across the Américas Chapter 4. “Somos uno porque América es una”: Quinto Festival de Teatro Chicano/Primer Encuentro Latino Americano de Teatro Chapter 5. “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 Chapter 6. Puente de Cristal (Crystal Bridge): Magdalena Mora, the 1975 Tolteca Strike, and Insurgent Feminism Epilogue: Solidarity/Beyond Solidarity Notes Bibliography Index

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Gomez has contributed substantially to our understanding of the transnational Chicana/o Left, and to broader currents in the emergence of Latina/o identity during the 1970s....It will be of use both in Trump-era social movements and in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, especially history and Latina/o studies offerings that focus on social movements, borderlands, and/or cultural studies. * Latino Studies *

""Gomez has contributed substantially to our understanding of the transnational Chicana/o Left, and to broader currents in the emergence of Latina/o identity during the 1970s....It will be of use both in Trump-era social movements and in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, especially history and Latina/o studies offerings that focus on social movements, borderlands, and/or cultural studies."" * Latino Studies *

Author Information

ALAN ELADIO GÓMEZ, a historian, is an assistant professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry and a faculty affiliate in the School of Transborder Studies and the Herberger School of Film, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University.

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