Solidarity across the Americas

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308 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 13 halftones, 4 maps, 4 graphs, 1 table, notes, bibl., index

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7405-6
Published: April 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7404-9
Published: April 2023
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Published: February 2023
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The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independent nation it needed to generate solidarity across the Americas with its struggle against US colonial rule. It invested significant energy, personnel, and resources in attending regional conferences, distributing its literature throughout the hemisphere, creating solidarity committees, presenting its case to elected officials and the general public, and promoting the causes of oppressed peoples. The hemispheric outpourings of solidarity with Puerto Rican independence have been obscured by larger, later liberation movements as well as the anticolonial party's ultimate failure to achieve independence. However, as this book shows, they were nonetheless central to anti-imperialists, nationalists, and revolutionaries from New York City to Buenos Aires.

Margaret M. Power's new history of the PNPR focuses on how it built a broad movement with active networks in virtually all of Latin America, much of the Caribbean, and New York City. This hemispheric view introduces a sprawling transnational network, nurtured by the PNPR from its founding in 1922 through its military actions of the 1950s and beyond that included individuals, parties, organizations, and governments throughout the Americas, and it resituates the Puerto Rican nationalist movement as a transnational revolutionary influence and force.

About the Author

Margaret M. Power is professor emerita of history at Illinois Institute of Technology.
For more information about Margaret M. Power, visit the Author Page.

Reviews

"By reconceptualizing Puerto Rico’s geopolitical position from a binational relationship between the island and the United States to a hemispheric coalition, Solidarity Across the Americas offers a fresh understanding of the region. . . . The linkages that Power begins to formulate across Latin America deserve further examination by scholars of social movements and transnational solidarities."—Los Angeles Review of Books

"Solidarity across the Americas brings the complicated and fraught history of Puerto Rican nationalism to an English reading audience in all its nuance and complexity."—Hispanic American Historical Review

“An urgently needed book to fill in the gaps in our knowledge and to highlight an important but little-known part of United States imperial history. . . . [Solidarity across the Americas] is an important contribution both to our understanding of that history as well the nature and significance of transnational solidarity campaigns.”—American Historical Review

"This book is an excellent, engaging read, an important contribution to the fields of Puerto Rican studies, Latin American studies, and Latino studies. For those who relish historical details, the footnotes are a treasure-trove of specifics and insights, showing the craft of a historian planting seeds for future students to follow in her footsteps."—Latino Studies

“Power provides a comprehensive account of the development and significance of the [Puerto Rican Nationalist Party]. . . . [A] first-rate analysis.”—The Americas

"An important new book."—The Progressive