. 3 Supporting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in Reading Informational Texts, Writing, and Speaking and Listening for high school curricula, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is an appropriate choice for grades 11–12 in Language Arts, American History, Cultural Studies, and Social Studies classes. I've tried to explain to him the concept behind reparations and the lack of inherited wealth, but for someone who came from a lower middle-class background, who didn't inherit actual money when his father died, explaining where that "inherited wealth" comes into his privilege is a frustrating endeavor for both of us. 0
$28.95, Your Search for Meaning and Truth Begins Here, An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights, An African American and Latinx History of the United States. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence from Reconstruction to… More about Paul Ortiz, “A concise, alternate history of the United States.
This is a necessary text for reconceptualizing American history, and Ortiz meticulously establishes historical precedent for multiethnic coalition building that extends beyond geographical borders to restore dignity and architect descriptive and substantive representation.”—Sonja Diaz, executive director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, Author’s NoteINTRODUCTION“Killed Helping Workers to Organize”REENVISIONING AMERICAN HISTORYCHAPTER 1The Haitian Revolution and the Birth of Emancipatory Internationalism, 1770s to 1920sCHAPTER 2The Mexican War of Independence and US HistoryANTI-IMPERIALISM AS A WAY OF LIFE, 1820s TO 1850sCHAPTER 3“To Break the Fetters of Slaves All Over the World”THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1850s TO 1865CHAPTER 4Global Visions of ReconstructionTHE CUBAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT, 1860s TO 1880sCHAPTER 5Waging War on the Government of American Banks in the Global South, 1890s to 1920sCHAPTER 6Forgotten Workers of AmericaRACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE WORKING CLASS, 1890s TO 1940sCHAPTER 7Emancipatory Internationalism vs. the American Century, 1945 to 1960sCHAPTER 8El Gran Paro EstadounidenseTHE REBIRTH OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, 1970s TO THE PRESENTEPILOGUEA New Origin Narrative of American HistoryAcknowledgmentsA Note on SourcesNotesIndex, Sign up for news about books, authors, and more from Penguin Random House, Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network. ELECT BLACK WOMEN. 0000021885 00000 n $18.00, Price: 0000044062 00000 n | ISBN 9780807013106 Please try again later. 0000008395 00000 n What does it mean to be a citizen of a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on this earth? An African American and Latinx History of the United States. 0000030590 00000 n 0000019300 00000 n Scholar and activist Paul 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 US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.
© Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305. catalog, articles, website, & more in one search, books, media & more in the Stanford Libraries' collections, An African American and Latinx history of the United States, Introduction. .A sleek, vital history that effectively shows how, ‘from the outset, inequality was enforced with the whip, the gun, and the United States Constitution.’”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review“A challenging and necessary approach to understanding our history. Extraordinary in its depth and breadth.”—Gaye Theresa Johnson, author of Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity“An epic, panoramic account of class struggles in the Western Hemisphere.
There, we—Black and Brown student artists, poets, and organizers enrolled in his undergraduate course—rejoiced in our shared history of struggle for a United States rooted in peace and mutual respect. 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. | ISBN 9780807005934
0000020642 00000 n And it does the work of both without resorting to academese, or resembling an academic text at all—to its immense credit.”—Los Angeles Review of Books“An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a gift.”—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America“Paul Ortiz is a true people’s historian . It's been harmful in the past, it continues to be harmful now. trailer
Collectively-managed. Buy, An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning 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.
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At center stage are the Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people who built the ‘new world.’”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination“From Crispus Attucks and José Maria Morelos to César Chávez and Martin Luther King Jr . Accessible, engaging, and enlightening.”—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness“A fierce and masterful work of historical scholarship. 0000001669 00000 n
“An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a curriculum as much as it is an ongoing story of liberation.
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. Having just finished the former, I was stoked to see the latter on Edelweiss available for download and review, and immediately snapped it up. . 0000042507 00000 n Anarchist publishing and distribution since 1990. 0000007548 00000 n A must-read for those who want a deeper perspective than is offered in the traditional history textbook.”—Library Journal“A welcome antidote to the poison of current reactionary attitudes toward people of color, their cultures, and place in the US.”—Booklist“Here is a far more inclusive, alternative history—one developed from the bottom up—that does not worship the cult of Europe.”—CHOICE“An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a curriculum as much as it is an ongoing story of liberation. 0000050536 00000 n
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Accessible, engaging, and enlightening.” —George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, “A fierce and masterful work of historical scholarship. The American Revolution as a Gigantic Real Estate Scam, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. 0000092348 00000 n Dec 11, 2018 Paul Ortiz wields the engaging power of a social historian to bring vividly to life so many Black and Brown fighters for human rights in the Americas. ", "Teaching American history honestly means ending the unforgivable silences surround the debts of gratitude we owe to Haiti, Mexico, and Latin America generally in demonstrating through words and deeds the meanings of justice and freedom.". But here are the takeaways for me, in no particular order: The true realization that our country was NEVER authentically predicated on the idea of success and equality for, The idea of American exceptionalism (like most ideas of exceptionalism) is a harmful lie. 0000026809 00000 n 0000011074 00000 n The result is simultaneously invigorating, embarrassing, and essential to anyone interested in what the revolutionaries of years past can teach us about struggles for freedom, equality, and democracy today.”—William P. Jones, author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights“A groundbreaking book about African Americans and Latino/a Americans whose ancestors came from Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean.