An African American and Latinx History of the United States

An intersectional, bottom-up 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 politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, scholar and activist Paul Ortiz 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. Ortiz links the struggles of African American civil rights activists fighting Jim Crow laws, Mexican labor organizers warring against capitalism, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries, showing how Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have historically urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas.
Incisive and timely, this revolutionary history reveals the radically different ways people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today.