Essay #113: Kirwin Shaffer, ‘Hispanic Anarchism: The Forging of a Transnational Anarchist Latinidad’

In this essay, Kirwin Shaffer explores the creation of an anarchist ethnic identity (an anarchist Latinidad) among Spanish-speaking anarchists in the United States in the 1880s and 1890s. This identity united anarchists from Spain and Cuba around a common language and common experiences confronting capitalism and the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s while rejecting divisive ethnic and nationalist politics centered around the place of one's birth. Kirwin Shaffer is Professor of Latin American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University - Berks College. His most recent books include A Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean, Anarchists of the Caribbean: Countercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion, and the forthcoming Anarchist Militants in Latin America: Biographies, Historiographies, and Transnational Lives co-edited with Amparo Sánchez Cobos and María Migueláñez Martínez. Anarchist Essays is brought to you by Loughborough University's Anarchism Research Group and the journal Anarchist Studies. Follow us on Bluesky @anarchismresgroup.bsky.social Our music comes from Them'uns (featuring Yous'uns). Artwork by Sam G.

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