Mario Cantu Defense Committee

Mario Cantu Defense Committee
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1976
Genre: Hispanic Americans
ISBN:

Includes reproductions of articles published in San Antonio newspapers and national newspapers.

The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico

The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico
Author: Alan Eladio Gómez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477310762

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.

Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico

Challenging Authoritarianism in Mexico
Author: Fernando Herrera Calderon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-04-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136478507

The Cold War in Latin America spawned numerous authoritarian and military regimes in response to the ostensible threat of communism in the Western Hemisphere, and with that, a rigid national security doctrine was exported to Latin America by the United States. Between 1964 and 1985, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uraguay experienced a period of state-sponsored terrorism commonly referred to as the "dirty wars." Thousands of leftists, students, intellectuals, workers, peasants, labor leaders, and innocent civilians were harassed, arrested, tortured, raped, murdered, or 'disappeared.' Many studies have been done about this phenomenon in the other areas of Latin America, but strangely, Mexico's dirty war has been excluded from this particular scholarship. Here for the first time is a sustained look at this period and consideration of the many facets that make up the nearly two decades of the Mexican dirty war. Offering the reader a broad perspective of the period, the case studies in the book present narratives of particular armed revolutionary movements as well as thematic essays on gender, human rights, culture, student radicalism, the Cold War, and the international impact of this state-sponsored terrorism.

Caracol

Caracol
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1978
Genre: Mexican Americans
ISBN:

FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980

FBI Surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos, 1920-1980
Author: José Angel Gutiérrez
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1793615810

A multi-chapter book, first of its kind, that identifies, describes, and analyzes FBI documents revealing the hidden history of surveillance of Mexicans and Chicanos in the United States of America.