Christina Heatherton 
Arise! [PDF ebook] 
Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution

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 Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, 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 era’s 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 Heatherton considers 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.

 

Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

Christina Heatherton is Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at Trinity College, Connecticut. She is coeditor of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter.