User:Cliopentimento/Consuelo Uranga/Bibliography

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I plan to start with an overview of who Uranga was, the years her life spanned, and of her importance to feminist and communist politics in Mexico.

I'll have a section on her childhood and education; she grew up in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution and after it crossed the U.S./Mexico border to attend school in El Paso, Texas, with her brothers. She was involved in literary circles with her brothers, one of whom helped promote Mexican and Spanish-speaking literature in the U.S. through journalism.

The next section will explore her turn toward Marxist politics in the early 1930s. She had formed a small Marxist study circle in Chihuahua where she was a school teacher, and the failed presidential election of Jose Vasconcelos disenchanted her. She found in Marxist theories an answer to ongoing oppression of poor landless people in Mexico, and to U.S. imperialism and control over Mexico's economy and natural resources. She moved to Mexico City in 1931 and joined the PCM, which was at that time illegal.

The next section will explore her rise in the PCM; she became one of its most vital leaders in the 1930s. She organized with other communist women like Maria Refugio "Cuca" Garcia who was at that time trying to organize a women's wing of the PCM. Uranga, Cuca Garcia, and others upheld a socialist feminist agenda that they loudly and publicly asserted at women's conferences, where they were often arrested for their intransigence and open espousal of communist views. Their feminist platform included equal pay for equal work, social welfare for mothers and children, land for indigenous women and peasants, and anti-imperialism. By 1934, they were also demanding the right to vote. Uranga helped found the FUPDM in 1935, which became the largest women's organization in Mexico. At the same time, she and her romantic partner, Valentin Campa, also a PCM leader, were organizing oil workers who were striking. This activism helped influence the nationalization of Mexican oil by President Lazaro Cardenas in 1938.

The next section will explore her ousting from the PCM and her ongoing political activism into the 1950s and 60s.

The final section will explore her legacy through her work as well as her family. She had two daughters with Valentin Campa (a PCM leader from whom she split in 1940), and one of her daughters, Maria Fernanda Campa, was a prominent social justice activist in the 1960s onward.

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