An African American and Latinx History of the United States (ReVisioning American History)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MSOGQST |
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| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An intersectional 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 revolutionary, politically charged revisionist history, arguing that Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa—otherwise known as "The Global South"—were crucial to the development of America as we know it. Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History is a bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists revealing the radically different ways that brown and black people of the diaspora addressed issues plaguing the United States today.. In precise detail, Ortiz traces this untold history from the Jim Crow-esque racial segregation of the S