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This is the first book in any language to provide a comprehensive and comparative history of antifascisms in Latin America and the Caribbean. Multidisciplinary and accessible, it will engage students, scholars, and general readers interested in fascism/antifascism, Latin American studies, and those concerned with rising right-wing populism today.
List of contents
Introduction: (re)situating Latin America within antifascist studies Sandra McGee Deutsch and Jorge A. Nállim; 1. 'Lost in translation:' Comintern networks and the antiimperialist roots of antifascism's transnational culture in the Caribbean basin, 1924-1945 Sandra Pujals; 2. Diego Rivera's antifascist art: from proletarian unity to pan-Americanism John Lear; 3. 'Fascismo no:' Uruguayan antifascist movements during the 1930s and early 1940s Pedro Cameselle-Pesce; 4. Women take up arms: feminism and antifascism in South America during the Spanish civil war Vanesa Miseres; 5. Reading between the lines: antifascism within the Urban ladina community in Guatemala city, 1932-1944 Patricia Harms; 6. Applying the Atlantic charter to the Caribbean basin: antifascism and the 1944 Honduran masacre sampedrana Aaron Coy Moulton; 7. Local contexts and transnational influences: antifascism and national writers' associations in Argentina and Chile, 1930s-1950s Jorge A. Nállim; 8. In search of revolutionary continuity: antifascism in post-1959 Cuba Ariel Mae Lambe; 9. Exposing fascism: the rise of Bolsonarismo and the naked politics of Brazil's first trans men's football team Cara K. Snyder; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Sandra McGee Deutsch is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has authored multiple books on fascism and antifascism, including Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890–1939 (1999) and Gendering Antifascism: Women's Activism in Argentina and the World, 1918–1947 (2023), which won the 2024 RMCLAS Thomas McGann Award.Jorge A. Nállim is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba. He specializes in the political, cultural, and intellectual history of modern Latin America and Argentina. He is the author of Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930–1955 (2012) and Las raíces del antiperonismo: Orígenes históricos e ideológicos (2016). He has also published on Latin American antifascism and the cultural Cold War in Mexico, Chile, and Argentina.
