An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul Ortiz.
Ortiz, Paul, 1964- author.
2018
E184.S75 O79 2018eb
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Title An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul Ortiz.
Author Ortiz, Paul, 1964- author.
ISBN 9780807013908 (electronic book)
0807013900 (electronic book)
9780807013106
0807013102
Published Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages).
Call Number E184.S75 O79 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism. In precise detail, Ortiz traces this untold history from the Jim Crow-esque racial segregation of the Southwest, the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, International Workers' Day, when migrant laborers-Chicana/os, Afro-Cubanos, and immigrants from nearly every continent on earth-united in resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants." Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Revisioning American history.
Available in Other Form African American and Latinx history of the United States
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