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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 The united states 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 At the same time as sharing a socialist-oriented, anticapitalist vision. In discussions ranging from the Nuevo Teatro Popular movement across Latin The united states to the Revolutionary Proletariat Party of The united states 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 america, 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 backward and forward across the USA-Mexico border, this book analyzes the radical creativity and global justice that animated “Greater Mexico” leftists all through a pivotal decade. At the same time as not the entire participants were of one mind politically or for my part, they nonetheless shared an international solidarity that was once enacted in local arenas, giving voice to a political and cultural imaginary that circulated right through a broad geographic terrain At the same time as forging multifaceted identities. The epilogue considers the politics of going beyond solidarity.

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