Margaret M. Energy’s Solidarity throughout the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Celebration and Anti-imperialism (The College of North Carolina Press, 2023) might be offered by Dr. José Paralitici on the Puerto Rican Athenaeum [Ateneo Puertorriqueño] in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Could 4, at 7:00pm (EST).
E-book Description: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Celebration (PNPR) understood that to efficiently set up an unbiased nation it wanted to generate solidarity throughout the Americas with its wrestle towards US colonial rule. It invested vital power, personnel, and sources in attending regional conferences, distributing its literature all through the hemisphere, creating solidarity committees, presenting its case to elected officers and most of the people, and selling the causes of oppressed peoples. The hemispheric outpourings of solidarity with Puerto Rican independence have been obscured by bigger, later liberation actions in addition to the anticolonial occasion’s final failure to realize independence. Nonetheless, as this guide reveals, they have been nonetheless central to anti-imperialists, nationalists, and revolutionaries from New York Metropolis to Buenos Aires.
Margaret M. Energy’s new historical past of the PNPR focuses on the way it constructed a broad motion with energetic networks in just about all of Latin America, a lot of the Caribbean, and New York Metropolis. This hemispheric view introduces a sprawling transnational community, nurtured by the PNPR from its founding in 1922 by way of its army actions of the Fifties and past that included people, events, organizations, and governments all through the Americas, and it resituates the Puerto Rican nationalist motion as a transnational revolutionary affect and drive.
Margaret M. Energy is professor emerita of historical past at Illinois Institute of Know-how.
For extra details about Margaret M. Energy, go to the Writer Web page.
For extra info, see https://uncpress.org/guide/9781469674056/solidarity-across-the-americas/