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Book SynopsisRadical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation.
Trade Review"
Radical Sensations is superb scholarship in every way. It engages many emerging currents in contemporary scholarship but has the field of transnational radicalism between 1886 and 1927 all to itself. Among its many contributions, a singularly important one is Shelley Streeby's explanation of why culture counts and how history happens. Part of politics is the production and management of affect. Streeby shows how sentiment and sensation became the lingua franca of American politics in the nineteenth century, with mixed results for radical social movements. The very discourses of sentiment and sensationalism that enabled some radical critiques to gain traction with the masses hobbled others by letting sympathy substitute for social justice."—
George Lipsitz, author of
How Racism Takes Place"This is a brilliantly conceived book, filled with novel insights into the ways that new media and visual technologies intersected with and enabled what Shelley Streeby aptly terms 'the proliferation of rival world visions and internationalisms’ of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth.
Radical Sensations is the book that I have been waiting to teach in courses on U.S. history or transnational methodology."—
Penny M. Von Eschen, author
of Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957“Provocative and insightful. . . .” -- Paul Buhle * Journal of American History *
“
Radical Sensations is a work of astonishing complexity, a cultural history that gives us a portrait into a bridge period of Hemispheric eras, one that must piece together nineteenth-century physical expansion to later twentieth-century articulations….” -- Samantha Pinto * American Literature *
"[Streeby's] unique approach and nuanced use of visual and print sources make this book a must-read for all labor historians." -- David M. Struthers * Labor *
Table of ContentsIllustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Sentiment, Sensation, Visual Culture, and Radical World Movements, 1886–1927 1
Part I. Global Haymarkket
1. Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket 35
2. From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution: Anarchists, Socialists, Wobblies, and Magonistas 71
Part II. Revolutionary US-Mexico Borderlands
3. Sensational Socialism, the Horrors of the Porfiriato, and Mexico's Civil Wars 111
4. The End(s) of
Barbarous Mexico on the Boundaries of Revolutionary Internationalism 151
Part III. Black Radical New York City
5. Sensational Counter-Sensationalisms: Black Radicals Struggle Over Mass Culture 173
6. Archiving Black Transnational Modernity: Scrapbooks, Stereopticons, and Social Movements 193
7. "WantedA Colored International": Hubert H. Harrison, Marcus Garvey, and Modern Media 229
Epilogue. Deportation Scenes 251
Notes 269
Bibliography 305
Index 323
