The Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies Latin American History Speaker Series presents
Tony Wood, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder:
“Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America.”
Radical Sovereignty looks at the transnational discussions between Latin American radicals in the 1920s and 1930s spanning places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Havana, Moscow, and Brussels. The radical ideas put forward by these thinkers did not come to fruition, but their political actions changed the landscape of Latin American politics.
Tony Wood’s work focuses on how the Latin American radical left thought about race, class, nation, and empire in the interwar period. Previously trained as a specialist on Russia and the former Soviet Union, he is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence (2007) and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War (2018). He was deputy editor of New Left Review from 2007 to 2014 and is a member of its editorial board. He has written on a range of subjects for the London Review of Books, n+1, The Nation, and the Guardian (UK), among other outlets.