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From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions.
Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the preâWorld War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies.
Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement's changing fortunes from the preâWorld War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies.
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Publisher
University of Illinois PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780252080920, 9780252039386eBook ISBN
9780252097430Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. âYiddish is my Homelandâ: Jewish Anarchists in New York City
- Chapter 2. I Senza Patria: Italian Anarchists in Paterson, New Jersey
- Chapter 3. âAll Flags Look Alike to usâ: Immigrant Anarchists in San Francisco
- Chapter 4. âThe Whole World is our Countryâ: Transnational Anarchist Activism and the First World War
- Chapter 5. Revolution and Repression: From Red Dawn to Red Scare
- Chapter 6. âNo Right to Exist Anywhere on this Earthâ: Anarchism in Crisis
- Conclusion: âThe Whole World is Turned into a Frightful Fortressâ
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author