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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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

"By reintegrating Puerto Rico into a hemispheric context, this book recovers the PNPR as an important piece missing from the history of Latin American anti-imperialist struggles. . . . Highy Recommended."—CHOICE

“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

"An important new book."—The Progressive

"Relying on archival documents, printed sources, and oral history interviews, Power paints a broad picture of the evolution of the PNPR and its multistranded networks of support. . . . Power provides a comprehensive account of the development and significance of the PNPR."—The Americas

"This fascinating story often decenters the party's history from Pedro Albizu Campos and illuminates lesser-known and unknown characters while also decentering the history of the party from a strictly Puerto Rican setting. A fine read!"—Kirwin Shaffer, Penn State University–Berks College