Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Culture
Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
August 24, 2023Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.
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‘Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class’ in review
August 18, 2023Black Folks opens with a story about how and why some of her ancestors chose to leave their Southern homes in the early 20th century, a story that serves as a narrative thread throughout the book.
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Culture
A new book examines global radicalism in the era of the Mexican Revolution
July 7, 2023Heatherton’s Arise! provides a groundbreaking analysis of the Mexican Revolution and its profound impact on the emergence of global radicalism.
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New book studies why Black women turned to the Communist Party in 1930s
June 14, 2023Historian Melissa Ford’s research explores Black women’s radical activism during the Great Depression.
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Culture
‘Never-Ending Youth’: Urariano Mota’s novel-memoir of resistance to Brazilian fascism
June 2, 2023Based on real people or composites of real people, Mota’s work offers snapshots of 1970s Brazil’s radical youth movement.
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‘Novel’ and ‘news’ have the same root: ‘A Time Outside This Time’ reviewed
May 30, 2023This new book centers on a man writing a novel about the truth in the time of Trumpism. It unfolds through a journalistic prose style that conveys more fact than fiction.
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Culture
Sacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
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‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’: Manuel Tiago asks us to examine ‘the woman question’
April 18, 2023This masterpiece of modern Portuguese literature is the final installment in International Publishers' translations of the works of Manuel Tiago.
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