Radical Solidarity (eBook)

Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence

Lisa G. Materson (Autor)

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2024
286 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7993-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Radical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (191689), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of nationalist revolutionaries during Puerto Rico's long struggle for independence. Reynolds dedicated her life to ending US control of the archipelago. She testified before Congress and the UN, organized fellow North Americans, investigated the brutal tactics used by the colonial state to quash independence sentiment, and was incarcerated as a political prisoner. Lisa G. Materson introduces the concept of "e;radical solidarity"e; to describe Reynolds's powerful model for globally engaged activism. Guided by her vision of allyship, Reynolds developed deep bonds with the Puerto Rican nationalist women with whom she was imprisoned, collaborated across ideological divides with revolutionary leaders, and established lasting relationships with civil rights lawyers, political exiles, and New Left activists. Her radical solidarity enabled her to remain a tireless champion for Puerto Rico's independence through five decades of hope, disappointment, and political change. Her life reveals the price paid by those who supported an independent Puerto Rico and sheds light on the possibilities of working across differences in the face of US state-sanctioned violence and colonialism.

Autor

Lisa G. Materson is professor of history at the University of California, Davis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 1948 student strike at the University of Puerto Rico • allyship in struggle for Puerto Rico’s independence • Gandhian non-violent resistance and Puerto Rico • gender and anticolonialism in the United States • movement for Puerto Rico’s independence • nationalist party of puerto rico • Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico uprising of 1950 • Pedro Albizu Campos • political prisoners and Puerto Rico • Puerto Rico and the Cold War • radical pacifism and Puerto Rico • repression in the creation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico • resistance history • Solidarity with Puerto Rico’s movement for independence • US women and anticolonialism • women in the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7993-0 / 1469679930
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7993-8 / 9781469679938