Groundbreaking Historian Christina Heatherton in conversation with Jason Ferreira, Race and Resistance Studies San Francisco State University discussing Christina’s new book;Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution explores the global impact of the Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected

sites and struggles. Following figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-

colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan

migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai, Arise! reveals

how activists found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico. From art collectives and

farm worker strikes to prison “universities,” Arise! considers how disparate revolutionary

traditions merged in unanticipated alliances. Drawing on prison records, surveillance data, oral

histories, visual art, and a rich trove of untapped sources, Christina Heatherton charts how

radicals in the era forged an anti-racist internationalism from below.

Bio

Christina Heatherton is the Elting Associate Professor of American Studies and Human Rights at

Trinity College. She is the author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican

Revolution (University of California Press, 2022). For two decades she has been working with

social movements to produce collaborative works of political and popular education,

including Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016), co-

edited with Jordan T. Camp. She currently co-directs the Trinity Social Justice Initiative.