Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative discussion of the importance of revolutionary Mexico in the left radical and revolutionary movements of the early twentieth century. . . . [Heatherton] has expanded the meaning and impact of both manifestations of the human desire for social justice and revolutionary freedoms." * Counterpunch *
"This magnificent book is an example of what happens when poets write history—or more precisely, when revolutionary poets write histories of revolution." * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams (Twentieth Anniversary Edition): The Black Radical Imagination *
“For at least a century, leftwing activists, thinkers, and writers of every variety have been trying to connect the skeins of activity by the left across continents and varied populations. . . . In
Arise!, Christina Heatherton offers—in our troubled world with so many defeats for the left and popular movements—a vindication of sorts. . . . It is a grand sweep, richer in details than this reviewer can easily convey.”
* The Progressive Magazine *
“It is not only [its] insistently transnational orientation that sets . . . Heatherton’s book apart. . . . It is [its] hopefulness, [its] radical faith in the undying capacity of human beings to come together to defy the color line and overturn relations of exploitation and abuse — even, and especially, in the most disorienting of historical conditions.
. . . Arise! exemplif[ies] a new kind of revolutionary history, suited to a new era of struggle in the US-Mexico borderlands and beyond.”
* Jacobin *
“
Arise! . . . emphasize[s] that organizing need not begin with ideological consistency. Instead, radical possibility can be made by paying attention to the place and conditions of the people who find themselves together.” * Public Books *
"Heatherton weaves together the threads of a historical web that emanated from revolutionary Mexico, filling in crucial gaps and connecting diverse narratives. In doing so . . . [she] places it in the pantheon of history’s great revolutions." * El Pais *
“
Arise! connects a buried history of internationalist struggle . . . and enables us to reinterpret this period in a new light.” * Spectre *
"An invitation to seriously and collectively reflect on the political role that the writing of history has in the context of the multifaceted planetary crisis that we face today." * Hispanic American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: How to Make a Rope
1 • How to Make a Flag: Internationalism and the Pivot of 1848
2 • How to Make a Map: Small Shareholders and Global Radicals in Revolutionary Mexico
3 • How to Make a University: Ricardo Flores Magón and Internationalism in
Leavenworth Penitentiary
4 • How to Make Love: Alexandra Kollontai and the Nationalization of Women
5 • How to Make a Living: Dorothy Healey and Southern California Struggles for
Relief and Revolution
6 • How to Make a Dress: Elizabeth Catlett, Radical Pedagogy, and Cultural Resistance
Conclusion: How to Make History
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
