Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left
Cambridge University Press, 7/11/2019
EAN 9781108439251, ISBN10: 110843925X
Paperback, 320 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Many treatments of the twentieth-century Latin American left assume a movement populated mainly by affluent urban youth whose naïve dreams of revolution collapsed under the weight of their own elitism, racism, sexism, and sectarian dogmas. However, this book demonstrates that the history of the left was much more diverse. Many leftists struggled against capitalism and empire while also confronting racism, patriarchy, and authoritarianism. The left's ideology and practice were often shaped by leftists from marginalized populations, from Bolivian indigenous communities in the 1920s to the revolutionary women of El Salvador's guerrilla movements in the 1980s. Through ten historical case studies of ten different countries, Making the Revolution highlights some of the most important research on the Latin American left by leading senior and up-and-coming scholars, offering a needed corrective and valuable contribution to modern Latin American history, politics, and sociology.
List of figures
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction
revolutionary actors, encounters, and transformations Kevin A. Young
1. Common ground
Caciques, artisans, and radical intellectuals in the Chayanta rebellion of 1927 Forrest Hylton
2. Identity, class, and nation
Black immigrant workers, Cuban communism, and the sugar insurgency, 1925–34 Barry Carr
3. Indigenous movements in the eye of the hurricane Marc Becker
4. Friends and comrades
political and personal relationships between members of the Communist Party USA and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, 1930s–40s Margaret Power
5. Total subversion
interethnic radicalism in La Paz, Bolivia, 1946–7 Kevin A. Young
6. 'Sisters in exploitation'
the 1959 Congress of Latin American women and the transnational origins of Cuban state feminism Michelle Chase
7. Revolutionaries without revolution
regional experiences in the forging of a radical political culture in the Southern Cone of South America (1966–76) Aldo Marchesi
8. Nationalism and Marxism in rural Cold War Mexico
Guerrero, 1959–74 O'Neill Blacker-Hanson
9. The ethnic question in Guatemala's armed conflict
insights from the detention and 'rescue' of Emeterio Toj Medrano Betsy Konefal
10. 'For our total emancipation'
the making of revolutionary feminism in insurgent El Salvador, 1977–87 Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra
Index.