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Insurgent Infrastructure: Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Young Lords

Insurgent Infrastructure: Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Young Lords

Rodriguez, Eric Manuel

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ISBN10: 1666981680
ISBN13: 9781666981681
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 12 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Eric Manuel Rodriguez argues that revolutionary rhetoric operates as insurgent infrastructure rather than symbolic performance.

Examining the Young Lords, a revolutionary nationalist organization forged from conditions of colonial displacement, racial capitalism, and urban neglect, this book argues that rhetorical studies requires recalibration to account for rhetoric's material dimensions and its capacity to coordinate collective survival. Through sustained analysis of the Young Lords' bilingual newspaper Palante, their 13-Point Program and Platform, Rules of Discipline, and the occupations, clinics, and educational programs that constituted their revolutionary praxis, Rodriguez demonstrates how rhetoric coordinated bodies, resources, and time under conditions of organized abandonment.

Drawing on decolonial theory, foquismo, and the concept of kairos, the study reframes rhetorical action as the construction of counter-institutions - free clinics, autonomous media, community defense, liberation schools - that sustained collective survival. Tracing the organization's rhetorical evolution from Chicago to New York and its eventual fracture, Eric Manuel Rodriguez reveals how print, pedagogy, and occupation functioned as logistical media for mobilization, and how the three principles - insurgent infrastructure, dialectical pedagogy, and collective logistics - connect the Young Lords' legacy to contemporary movements and abolitionist organizing.

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