04104cam a2200457 4500 390270445 TxAuBib 20190828120000.0 171031s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017020565 9780807013106 0807013102 9780807005934 0807005932 99976000364 40027921778 (OCoLC)1002664667 TxAuBib Ortiz, Paul, 1964- An African American and Latinx history of the United States / Paul Ortiz. Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2018] ©2018. xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-259) and index. 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. Scholar and activist Paul 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 US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers' Day, when migrant laborers--Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth--united in resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants." As African American civil rights activists fought against Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from Central America and the Caribbean. And in stark contrast to the resurgence of "America first" rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas. Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.--Jacket. 20190828. Hispanic Americans History. African Americans History. Blacks Caribbean Area Politics and government. Anti-imperialist movements United States. Working class United States History. Internationalists United States History. Latin Americans United States History. United States Race relations. United States Ethnic relations. United States Relations Latin America. Latin America Relations United States. https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0807013102&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=2f2f50d66d852d7874f2d36ceac3bb174bcbf39efc1f3e536cf3e242c96369c7&ectype=TOC Table of contents https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0807013102&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=2f2f50d66d852d7874f2d36ceac3bb174bcbf39efc1f3e536cf3e242c96369c7&ectype=MOREINFO More Info https://firstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/DECRead?standardNoType=1&standardNo=0807013102&sessionid=0&srcdbname=worldcat&key=14d241ae99e13a0e0d2cce9b0b5ac5630da8bba0b5ce254d9a00a384a07c037e&ectype=MOREINFO More Info