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Suffrage is the most significant political development within modern Liberal states. Despite this fact, it is curious as to why suffrage movements have so little history. This article focuses on the creation of an edited volume that seeks to address the women's suffrage story across the Americas. While the intellectual process of the project is discussed in some detail, this article is predominantly a reflection on the process of developing a collaborative project and the challenges inherent to a transnational approach. This project reveals both the significance of suffrage and simultaneously the fractured landscape within individual countries, suffrage movements and the body politics as countless individuals and groups were excluded from the concept of 'citizenship.' It has become clear at this juncture that although significant gaps within women's history across the hemisphere remain, attempting to compile a hemispheric story such as this one would have been unthinkable even a few decades ago and this type of project could also have not happened much earlier in the historiography.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: From the National to the Transnational -- The National and the International in Latin American Communism -- Part I: Bolshevism and the Americas (1917-1943) -- 1. The Comintern, the Communist Party of Mexico, and the "Sandino Case": The History of a Failed Alliance, 1927-1930 -- The Beginnings of the Pro-Sandinista Campaign -- The Formation of the MAFUENIC and Its First Tasks -- The Mexican Government Speaks Out -- The Crisis and Rupture of Relations between the PCM and Sandino -- Final Considerations -- 2. Black Caribbean Migrants and the Labor Movement and Communists in the Greater Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s -- Communists and the Negro Question in the United States -- The African Blood Brotherhood -- Communists and Antillanos in Panama and Costa Rica -- Antillanos in Costa Rica -- The 1934 Banana Workers' Strike and West Indians -- The Comintern, CPUSA, and Caribbean Bureau -- El Mundo Obrero and the Negro Question -- 3. The "Negro Question" in Cuba, 1928-1936 -- The Negro Question in Cuba -- Defense of the Scottsboro Nine -- The "Faja Negra" -- Defense of Antillano Workers -- Dawn of the Popular Front -- Conclusion -- 4. Semicolonials and Soviets: Latin American Communists in the USSR, 1927-1936 -- Visitors to the Future -- Classifying Latin America -- Dilemmas of the Third Period -- A "Forge for Cadres"? -- The Hair's-Breadth Universe -- Conclusion -- 5. A Relationship Forged in Exile: Luís Carlos Prestes and the Brazilian Communist Party, 1927-1935 -- New Paths in the 1920s -- The May Manifesto -- The Knight of Hope in Moscow -- The Seventh World Congress, the ANL, and the 1935 Revolt -- Conclusion: Imprisoned but on the Rise.