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Author Shaffer, Kirwin R

Title Black flag Boricuas : anarchism, antiauthoritarianism, and the left in Puerto Rico, 1897-1921 / Kirwin R. Shaffer
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

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Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Style Notes -- Prologue -- Introduction: Cultural Politics and Transnational Anarchism in Puerto Rico -- 1. The Roots of Anarchism and Radical Labor Politics in Puerto Rico, 1870s�1899 -- 2. Radicals and Reformers: Anarchists, Electoral Politics, and the Unions, 1900�1910 -- 3. Anarchist Alliances, Government Repression: Education, Freethinkers, and CESs, 1909�1912 -- 4. Anarchists, Freethinkers, and Spiritists: The Progressive Alliance against the Catholic Church,
5. Radicalism Imagined: Leftist Culture, Gender, and Revolutionary Violence, 1900�19206. Politics of the Bayamón Bloc and the Partido Socialista: Anarchism and Socialism in the 1910s -- 7. El Comunista: Radical Journalism and ransnational Anarchism, 1920�1921 -- Conclusion and Epilogue: Anarchist Antiauthoritarianism in a U.S. Colony, 1898�2011 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This pathbreaking study examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa, Florida, and New York City, Kirwin R. Shaffer illustrates how anarchists linked their struggle to the broader international anarchist struggles against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. Their groups, plays, fiction, speeches, and press accounts--as well as the newspapers that they published--were central in helping to develop an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man's-land, neither an official U.S. colony or state nor an independent country. Exploring the rise of artisan and worker-based centers to develop class consciousness, Shaffer follows the island's anarchists as they cautiously joined the AFL-linked Federación Libre de Trabajadores, the largest labor organization in Puerto Rico. Critiquing the union from within, anarchists worked with reformers while continuing to pursue a more radical agenda achieved by direct action rather than parliamentary politics. Shaffer also traces anarchists' alliances with freethinkers seeking to reform education, progressive factions engaged in attacking the Church and organized religion, and the emerging Socialist movement on the island in the 1910s. The most successful anarchist organization to emerge in Puerto Rico--he Bayamón Bloc--ounded El Comunista, the longest-running, most financially successful anarchist newspaper in the island's history. Stridently attacking U.S. militarism and interventionism in the Caribbean Basin, the newspaper found growing distribution throughout and financial backing from Spanish-speaking anarchist groups in the United States. Shaffer demonstrates how the U.S. government targeted the Bayamón anarchists during the Red Scare and forced the closure of their newspaper in 1921, effectively unraveling the anarchist movement on the island."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Anarchism -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Anarchism.
Anarchism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108958
Puerto Rico -- History -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108952
Subject Puerto Rico
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718506
ISBN 9780252094903
0252094905
1299584403
9781299584402