<p><b>An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights</b></p><p>Spanning more than two hundred years <i>An African American and Latinx History of the United States</i> 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.</p><p>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.'</p><p>Incisive and timely <i>An African American and Latinx History of the United States</i> 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.</p>
