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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

"W. E. B. Du Bois famously observed that 'the color line belts the world.' The anticolonial intellectuals Musab Younis examines in his incisive and pathbreaking book knew that the only way to destroy the racial-colonial order was to fight on a world scale. A work rich in historical texture and theoretical sophistication, On the Scale of the World is destined to be a classic in studies of mid-twentieth-century Black radicalism."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "On the Scale of the World carefully attends to the layers of spatial critique generated by Black and anticolonial thinkers in the interwar years. In this beautifully written text, Younis demonstrates how Black geographic knowledge unsettles imperial-colonial metrics by imagining the planet-world as a scale of rebellious dynamism, political struggle, embodied knowledge, and diasporic consciousness."--Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle and Dear Science and Other Stories "Drawing on an impressive range of deep research in early twentieth-century African diasporic periodicals in French and English, this dazzling study traces the emergence of an 'underground' circuit of Black anticolonial thought. Younis shows that, rather than blinkered parochialism or nationalist particularism, Black anticolonialism must be understood first and foremost as a persistent mode of defying the provincializing drive of empire by 'jumping scales' between the local and the global, between the body and the world."--Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism "In this elegant and indispensable book, Younis chronicles the scalar thinking through which Black writers and activists diagnosed the global structure of White supremacy and charted other worlds. Theirs was a shape-shifting scale at once national and international, embodied and global, Younis argues. On the Scale of the World is especially remarkable for the ways it highlights the dense global networks of newspapers in colonial West Africa, examining Black periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic."--Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

"With a gripping narrative and incisive analysis, Under the Iron Heel shows how federal agencies, state governments, and local police combined to create a state-sanctioned reign of terror against a mostly peaceful union, the Industrial Workers of the World. Ahmed White, a distinguished historian of labor law, demonstrates that the destruction of the Wobblies was a pivotal moment in history of capitalist suppression of unions. Anyone interested in the history and politics of labor in the United States should read this book."--Kathryn S. Olmsted, author of Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism "Deeply researched and movingly written, Under the Iron Heel provides the definitive account of the criminalization of the most significant radical union in American history. Ahmed White's study of the destruction of the IWW reveals a legacy of repression that continues to shape the labor movement to this day."--Gabriel Winant, author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America "No American union has come close to approximating the revolutionary potential and dynamism of the IWW. Ahmed White's deeply researched, powerfully written book hammers home a fundamental point too often forgotten: ferocious repression, by the government and businesses, was the primary reason for this revolutionary union's decline. In greater depth than any previous work, White explains systematic efforts by the federal government, dozens of state governments, and businesses across the nation to crush the IWW and all for which it stood."--Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Writings of a Black Wobbly "Provocative, extensively researched, and heartbreaking, Ahmed White's Under the Iron Heel tells how the state conspired with powerful business interests to break the IWW while revealing important truths about repression's role in the making of modern America."--Paul Buhle, coeditor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left and Wobblies!

"Modern Sculpture: Artists in Their Own Words is the most comprehensive anthology of reflections on sculpture by artists who have been defining and redefining its identity during the past 108 years. Douglas Dreishpoon's selections of artists and texts, and thematic groupings, provide welcome access to a startling array of voices, from whose words it is clear how sculpture became the term through which the creative boldness of modern art is most eloquently revealed."--Michael Brenson, art critic and art historian "If we were to think of the notion of plasticity as being a sculptural form before it gets flattened out, as Matisse and Picasso (who were both painters and sculptors) would have pictorially and viscerally agreed, we would then argue how Paleolithic cave paintings must have started out with our ancestral hands touching the irregular surfaces of the cave walls before determining, however concave or convex they may feel, which segments would be fitting for the bodies of the animals and which may correlate to their surroundings. By ennobling the voices of artists, Douglas Dreishpoon has brilliantly concocted the history of modern and contemporary sculpture with flawless continuity while reaffirming that the sense of touch or being touched, materialized in the made object, is simply the truest testament of our existence. This is an essential reading for all artists and lovers of art indeed."--Phong H. Bui, cofounder, publisher, and artistic director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, Rail Curatorial Projects, and the River Rail

Since 1943 the personality and legend of General Juan Domingo Peron have towered over the Argentine Republic. Yet until 1930 Argentina was widely regarded as the best example of democracy and prosperity on a politically turbulent and economically underdeveloped continent. The present collection of articles by American and Argentine scholars examines the thirteen critical years that separated the "old" Argentina from the "new," and made possible the rise of one of the most powerful dictators in Latin America. In a little over a decade wracked by depression and war, political democracy in Argentina collapsed and the landed aristocracy was restored to power; the traditional relationship between the British and Argentine economies deteriorated and no satisfactory alternative was found; a generalized disillusionment and pessimism led to a fascination by intellectuals with authoritarian ideologies; a new "nationalistic" consciousness became increasingly evident in films, radio, and popular music; and social and demographic changes produced the constituency for a messianic populism. This volume thus identifies the symptoms that eventually resulted into the eleven year reign and twenty year cult of Peronismo, symptoms which strongly influence the course of events in present-day Argentina. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

This bilingual anthology is the first attempt to present a substantial collection of contemporary Arabic poetry in the English language. It acquaints the English-speaking reader with the modern development of one of the world's major poetic traditions, and affords insight into the contemporary cultural situation of the Arab peoples. English translations of Arabic poetry have suffered from aspirations to geographic completeness of representation and excessive concern with the Neo-Classicist school. The present anthology regards poetic quality as the primary criterion of selection and displays an emphatic interest in the poets of free verse. It presents three successive generations--the Syro-Americans, the Egyptian modernist, and the poets of free-verse movement--linked together by a progressive shift from emphasis on form to emphasis on content and form a relatively detached portrayal of the outside world to a concern with the expression of individual experience. Numerous contemporary poets make their first appearance in English, some of them having written pieces specially for this anthology. It is hoped that the bilingual character of the anthology will suit it for use by students of Arabic literature. At the same time, the book is intended for a wider readership with general poetic and literary interests. An important criterion in composing the anthology was the viability of a poem, in its English translation, as a piece of literature as well as the excellence of its Arabic original; if the translators have been successful in applying this criterion, the anthology should afford much aesthetic pleasure. The work should be of considerable interest also to students of comparative literature, as it demonstrates the influence on modern Arab letters of several Western poets, notably Eliot, Yeats, and Pound. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.