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Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism

12 June 2023, 3:00 pm–4:30 pm

Book cover: Solidarity across the Americas. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-imperialism

Professor Margaret Power in conversation with Dr. William A. Booth

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

UCL Institute of the Americas

Location

IAS Forum, G17 Ground Floor
South Wing, Wilkins Building
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

Anti-imperialist solidarity with Puerto Rican independence and the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party extended from New York City to Buenos Aires from the 1920s through the 1950s. This presentation examines the multiple expressions of this solidarity and explores what compelled so many people, organizations, and governments to call for an end to U.S. colonial rule of Puerto Rico.

The convenors would like to acknowledge the collaboration and support of UCL Institute of Advanced Studies in the organisation of this event.

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About the Speaker

Professor Margaret Power

Professor of History (Emerita) at Illinois Institute of Technology

Margaret Power is the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle
Against Allende, 1964-1973
and the recently released Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican

Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism. She is the co-author of Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression and co-editor of the soon to be released Transnational Communism Across the Americas, along with two co-edited books on the Right. She is a professor emeritus of History from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is also president of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago and co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy.

Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469674056/solidarity-across-the-americas/