The Return Of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935408581

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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

In this long-awaited study, Claudio Lomnitz tells an unprecedented story about the experience and ideology of American and Mexican revolu_tionary collaborators of the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón. Based on extensive research in American and Mexican archives, Lomnitz explores the rich, complicated, and virtually unknown lives of Magón and his comrades devoted to the “Mexican Cause.” This anthropological history of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal seeks to capture the experience and meaning of these dedicated militants who themselves struggled to understand their role and place at the margins of the Mexican Revolution. For them, the revolution was untranslatable, a pure but deaf subversion: “La revolución es la revolución.” For Lomnitz, their experiences reveal the meaning of this phrase. The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón tracks the lives of John Kenneth Turner, Ethel Duffy, Elizabeth Trowbridge, Ricardo Flores Magón, and Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, among others, to illuminate the reciprocal relationship between personal and collective ideology and action. This book is an epic and tragic tale, never before told, about camaraderie and disillusionment in the first transnational grassroots political movement to span the US–Mexico border. This book will revise how we think about not only the Mexican Revolution but also revolutionary action and passion.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935408437

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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

A tale, never before told, of anarchy, cooperation, and betrayal at the margins of the Mexican revolution.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1935408445

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The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

Author : Ricardo Flores Mag�n
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904859246

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Dreams of Freedom by Ricardo Flores Mag�n Pdf

The words of this Mexican American working-class hero brought to English-language readers for the first time.

Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324004387

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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize • One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • A Kirkus Best World History Book of 2022 One of Smithsonian's 10 Best History Books of 2022 • Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History prize • Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize “Rebel historian” Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers—and American dissidents—to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico’s dictator, Porfirio Díaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the FBI’s first cases. But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world’s first social revolution of the twentieth century. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas’ story integral to modern American life.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635420715

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Nuestra América by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller. In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s. Lomnitz’s grandparents, who were both trained to defy ghetto life with the pioneering spirit of the early Zionist movement, became intensely involved in the Peruvian leftist intellectual milieu and its practice of connecting Peru’s indigenous past to an emancipatory internationalism that included Jewish culture and thought. After being thrown into prison supposedly for their socialist leanings, Lomnitz’s grandparents were exiled to Colombia, where they were subject to its scandals, its class system, its political life. Through this lens, Lomnitz explores the almost negligible attention and esteem that South America holds in US public opinion. The story then continues to Chile during World War II, Israel in the 1950s, and finally to Claudio’s youth, living with his parents in Berkeley, California, and Mexico City.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1890951544

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Death and the Idea of Mexico by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from sixteenth-century holocaust to contemporary Mexican-American identity politics, anthropologist Claudio Lomnitz's innovative study marks a turning point in understanding Mexico's rich and unique use of death imagery. Unlike contemporary Europeans and Americans, whose denial of death permeates their cultures, the Mexican people display and cultivate a jovial familiarity with death. This intimacy with death has become the cornerstone of Mexico's national identity. Death and Idea of Mexico focuses on the dialectical relationship between dying, killing, and the administration of death, and the very formation of the colonial state, of a rich and variegated popular culture, and of the Mexican nation itself. The elevation of Mexican intimacy with death to the center of national identity is but a moment within that history--within a history in which the key institutions of society are built around the claims of the fallen. Based on a stunning range of sources--from missionary testimonies to newspaper cartoons, from masterpieces of artistic vanguards to accounts of public executions and political assassinations--Death and the Idea of Mexico moves beyond the limited methodology of traditional historiographies of death to probe the depths of a people and a country whose fearless acquaintance with death shapes the very terms of its social compact.

Author : Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478021469

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Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora by Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández Pdf

In Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora, Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández challenges machismo—a shorthand for racialized and heteronormative Latinx men's misogyny—with nuanced portraits of Mexican men and masculinities along and across the US-Mexico border. Guidotti-Hernández foregrounds Mexican men's emotional vulnerabilities and intimacies in their diasporic communities. Highlighting how Enrique Flores Magón, an anarchist political leader and journalist, upended gender norms through sentimentality and emotional vulnerability that he performed publicly and expressed privately, Guidotti-Hernández documents compelling continuities between his expressions and those of men enrolled in the Bracero program. Braceros—more than 4.5 million Mexican men who traveled to the United States to work in temporary agricultural jobs from 1942 to 1964—forged domesticity and intimacy, sharing affection but also physical violence. Through these case studies that reexamine the diasporic male private sphere, Guidotti-Hernández formulates a theory of transnational Mexican masculinities rooted in emotional and physical intimacy that emerged from the experiences of being racial, political, and social outsiders in the United States.

Author : Sara M. Benson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520296961

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The Prison of Democracy by Sara M. Benson Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.

Author : Ricardo Flores Magón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0919618294

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Land and Liberty by Ricardo Flores Magón Pdf

As background to the events in Chiapas, here is a seminal collection of essays by the famous theorist and activist Ricardo Flores Magón who influenced the Mexican Revolution, particularly the movements of Villa and Zapata. 1977: 156 pages, illustrated "paperback" ISBN: 0-919618-30-8 $12.99 "hardcover" ISBN: 0-919618-29-4 $41.99

Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469631196

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City of Inmates by Kelly Lytle Hernández Pdf

Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Author : Alan Eladio Gómez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477310762

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The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico by Alan Eladio Gómez Pdf

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.

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788735032

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Comrade by Jodi Dean Pdf

Between mass participation in two world wars and mass participation in Communist parties, in the 20th century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'. Now, it's more common to hear talk of 'allies' on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended. In Comrade, Dean offers a theory of the comrade as a mode of address, figure of belonging, and carrier of expectations for action. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relation is characterized by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the generic egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, CLR James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a Left at all, we have to be comrades.

Author : Corinna Zeltsman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520975477

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Ink under the Fingernails by Corinna Zeltsman Pdf

During the independence era in Mexico, individuals and factions of all stripes embraced the printing press as a key weapon in the broad struggle for political power. Taking readers into the printing shops, government offices, courtrooms, and streets of Mexico City, historian Corinna Zeltsman reconstructs the practical negotiations and discursive contests that surrounded print over a century of political transformation, from the late colonial era to the Mexican Revolution. Centering the diverse communities that worked behind the scenes at urban presses and examining their social practices and aspirations, Zeltsman explores how printer interactions with state and religious authorities shaped broader debates about press freedom and authorship. Beautifully crafted and ambitious in scope, Ink under the Fingernails sheds new light on Mexico's histories of state formation and political culture, identifying printing shops as unexplored spaces of democratic practice, where the boundaries between manual and intellectual labor blurred.

Author : Claudio Lomnitz
Publisher : Ediciones Era
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9786074455779

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El regreso del camarada Ricardo Flores Magón by Claudio Lomnitz Pdf

El regreso del camarada Ricardo Flores Magón de Claudio Lomnitz es uno de los libros más fascinantes y reveladores sobre la Revolución mexicana y sobre uno de sus protagonistas más importantes. Claudio Lomnitz teje magistralmente en un solo lienzo diferentes registros de la historia: el desarrollo de la ideología, la sucesión de los acontecimientos “monumentales”, las vicisitudes de la política, el laberinto de los secretos familiares, la presencia de los hechos individuales –públicos y privados– de una multitud de personajes inolvidables: Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara, Ethel Duffy, John Kenneth Turner, Práxedis Guerrero, Elizabeth Trowbridge y, por supuesto, los hermanos Flores Magón. El retrato de la actuación política de la familia Flores Magón en todas sus intrincadas e intensas relaciones es una obra ejemplar de investigación, reflexión y exposición: Claudio Lomnitz parece descubrir, para asombro nuestro, algo que siempre ha estado allí, y que, no obstante, pasa muchas veces desapercibido para la mayoría de los historiadores: una vida está hecha con acontecimientos, emociones, pasiones, relaciones, ideas. Que las vivencias se produzcan con diferentes niveles de intensidad y de trascendencia no impide, por el contrario, exige que cada acto, por nimio que parezca, tenga sentido. Lomnitz en este libro memorable le da sentido, con un cuidado que todos los lectores le agradecerán, a cada acontecimiento, nacional o personal, público o íntimo. El regreso del camarada Ricardo Flores Magón es, sin duda, un libro inolvidable e indispensable, que nos demuestra, una y otra vez, que la realidad es más asombrosa que cualquier ficción.