From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity by Anne Garland Mahler (review)
Anne Garland Mahler, assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, offers an ambitious analysis of transnational, radical political resistance from the mid twentieth century to the present through the lens of the understudied Cuban “Tricontinental.” Mahler conceives of the Tricontinental as much more than the 1966 Havana meeting that railed against US economic and military imperialism and produced the Organization of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL) or, as simply the official mouthpiece of the Cuban state, which backed the endeavor. To her, it represents a movement that predated the conference and whose global influence spread for years thereafter—indeed to the present—via numerous cultural productions.