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An intersectional record of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil privileges Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx Background of the United States is a ground-breaking, politically incurred narrative record arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the introduction of America as we realize it. Ortiz issues the notion of westward progress, as exalted by generally trained formulations such as "express destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how inserting African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and core transforms American record into the report of the working class organizing against imperialism. In precise aspect, Ortiz traces this untold record from the Jim Crow-esque racial segregation of the Southwest, the surge and violent street to redemption of a robust traditions of Mexican labor organizing in the 20th century, to May 1, 2006, International Employees' Day, when migrant laborers - Chicana/operating-system, Afro-Cubanos, and immigrants from practically every continent on earth - united in level of resistance on the first "Day Without Immigrants". Incisive and well-timed, An African American and Latinx Background of the United States is a bottom-up record told from the point of view of African American and Latinx activists and uncovering the radically different ways folks of the diaspora dealt with issues still plaguing the United States today.
