Radical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation.

Shelley Streeby is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture and a coeditor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction.

Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Sentiment, Sensation, Visual Culture, and Radical World Movements, 1886-1927 1
Part I. Global Haymarkket
1. Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket 35
2. From Haymarket to the Mexican Revolution: Anarchists, Socialists, Wobblies, and Magonistas 71
Part II. Revolutionary US-Mexico Borderlands
3. Sensational Socialism, the Horrors of the Porfiriato, and Mexico's Civil Wars 111
4. The End(s) of Barbarous Mexico on the Boundaries of Revolutionary Internationalism 151
Part III. Black Radical New York City
5. Sensational Counter-Sensationalisms: Black Radicals Struggle Over Mass Culture 173
6. Archiving Black Transnational Modernity: Scrapbooks, Stereopticons, and Social Movements 193
7. "Wanted?A Colored International": Hubert H. Harrison, Marcus Garvey, and Modern Media 229
Epilogue. Deportation Scenes 251
Notes 269
Bibliography 305
Index 323