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Writing Revolution

Hispanic Anarchism in the United States

Edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu

Contributions by Jon Bekken, Christopher J. Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio S. Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernandez, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre and David Watson

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Imprint: University of Illinois Press

10 black & white photographs, 3 tables

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Published: October 2019

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In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona. Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays investigate anarchist print culture's transatlantic origins; Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico's borderlands and Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first century.Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio Sánchez Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernández, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson

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Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hispanic Anarchist Print Culture: Writing from Below

Part I: Transatlantic Origins

1.Spanish Republicanism and the Press: The Political Socialization of Anarchists in the United Stat

2.Globetrotters and Rebels: Correspondents of the Spanish-Language Anarchist Press, 1886–1918 Aleja

Part II

3.Anarchism and the End of Empire: José Cayetano Campos, Labor, and Cuba Libre Christopher J. Casta

4.Red Florida in the Caribbean Red: Hispanic Anarchist Transnational Networks and Radical Politics,

5.Spanish-speaking Anarchists in the United States: The Newspaper Cultura Obrera and Its Transnatio

6.Spanish Firemen and Maritime Syndicalism, 1902–1940 Jon Bekken and Mario Martin Revellado

Part III

7.Moving West: Jaime Vidal, Anarchy, and the Mexican Revolution, 1904–1918 Christopher J. Castañeda

8.Caritina M. Piña and Anarcho-syndicalism: Labor Activism in the Greater Mexican Borderlands, 1910

9.Traces of the Revista Única: Appearances and Disappearances of Anarchism in Steubenville, 1909–19

Part IV

10.The Anarchist Imaginary: Max Nettlau and Latin America, 1890–1934 Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

11.Reflections of the United States: Through the Pages of La Revista Blanca, 1923–1936 María José D

12.Transnational Anarchist Culture in the Interwar Period: The Magazine Estudios (1928–1937) Javier

Part V

13.Keepsakes of the Revolution: Transnational Networks and the U.S. Circulation of Anarchist Propag

14.España Libre, 1939–1977: Anarchist Literature and Antifascism in the United States Montse Feu

15.Federico Arcos (1920–2015): An Iberian Anarchist Exile David Watson

Epilogue

Appendix A. Anarchist Periodicals (selected)

Appendix B. Archives, Digital Databases, and Projects (selected)

Contributors

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Christopher J. Castañeda is a professor in the department of history at California State University, Sacramento. His books include River City and Valley Life: An Environmental History of the Sacramento Region. Montse Feu is an assistant professor of Spanish and Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Spanish Program at Sam Houston State University. She is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press..

"Writing Revolutions's specific focus on the anarchist press sheds necessary light on the complexity of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anarchist networks among a variety of Hispanophone social groups from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe." --American Periodicals

"High-quality and worth reading. " --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

"This phenomenal collection brings to light the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement in the United States, as well as the transnational networks that linked it to Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism."--Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States