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In the 1920s and 1930s, Latin American radicals engaged in urgent debates over how to combat racism, resist empire, and reimagine the nation-state. Drawing on a global array of sources, Radical Sov...
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16 December 2025

In the 1920s and 1930s, Latin American radicals engaged in urgent debates over how to combat racism, resist empire, and reimagine the nation-state. Drawing on a global array of sources, Radical Sovereignty reconstructs these transnational discussions that unfolded in such far-flung locations as Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Moscow, and Brussels. Energized by the Mexican and Russian Revolutions, communists, trade unionists, peasant organizers, and anti-imperial activists emerged from these debates with innovative ideas for addressing historical oppressions, including proposals for a pan-continental confederation and calls to grant Black and Indigenous peoples in the Americas the right to form their own sovereign states. While these projects did not come to fruition, they left an enduring mark on Latin America's political landscape, bequeathing approaches to race, ethnicity, and self-determination that have resurfaced in recent years.
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Pages: 362
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
16 December 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520391260
Format: Paperback
Tony Wood is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence and Russia without Putin: Money, Power, and the Myths of the New Cold War.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One. Mexico City (1923–1929)
1. "Our Internationalism"
2. Against Empire
3. Anti-Imperial Rifts
Part Two. Moscow/Buenos Aires/The Caribbean/Lima (1928–1932)
4. Black Radicals, Bolsheviks, and Self-Determination
5. Race, Class, and the Making of the Present
6. Continental Nationalism
Part Three. Cuba/Mexico (1932–1940)
7. Another Country
8. A Plural Nation
Epilogue: Afterlives
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index