num_pages: 296
description: 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 revisionist history arguing that Latin America the Caribbean Africaotherwise known as The Global Southwere crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely-taught formulations like Manifest Destiny and Jacksonian Democracy and shows how placing African American Latinx and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into one of the working class organizing themselves 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 20th century to May 1 2006 International Workers' Day when migrant laborersChicana/os Afrocubanos and immigrants from every continent on earthunited in the first Day Without Immigrants to prove the value of their labor.Incisive and timely An African American and Latinx History is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists revealing the radically different ways that brown and black people of the diaspora addressed issues plaguing the United States today.
language: English
title: An African American and Latinx History of the United States
publisher: Beacon Press