Table ronde de l'axe 1 de Mondes Américains

Autour du livre de Margaret M. Power,
professeure à l’Illinois Institute of Technology

Solidarity across the Americas : The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism, UNC Press, 2023

 Lundi 5 juin 2023 de 10h à 12h

Lieu : EHESS, Campus Condorcet - Salle A402
2 cours des Humanités, Aubervilliers
Métro Front Populaire (ligne 12)
 

Avec les commentaires de :

- Audrey Celestine, Maîtresse de Conférences à l’Université de Lille
- Romy Sanchez, Chargée de recherche à l’Institut de Recherches Historiques Du Septentrion, Université de Lille

En présence et avec la réponse de l'auteure.

La séance est ouverte à toutes et tous. Elle aura lieu principalement en anglais.

Présentation du livre (University of North Carolina Press) :

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.