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 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.

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.”

Incisive and timely, An African American and Latinx History of the United States 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.

争取非裔美国人和拉美人民权的共同斗争的交叉性历史

横跨两百多年的《美国非裔和拉美裔历史》是一部革命性的、带有政治色彩的叙事史，认为 "全球南部 "对我们所知的美国的发展至关重要。奥尔蒂斯挑战了被广泛传授的 "天命 "和 "杰克逊式民主 "等提法所推崇的西进概念，并展示了如何将非裔美国人、拉美人和原住民的声音毫无保留地放在前面和中心，将美国历史转变为工人阶级组织起来反对帝国主义的故事。

奥尔蒂斯以精确的细节追溯了这段不为人知的历史，从西南地区吉姆-克劳式的种族隔离、二十世纪墨西哥劳工组织的强大传统的兴起和暴力衰落，到2006年5月1日国际工人节，当时移民劳工--墨西哥人、非洲裔古巴人和来自地球上几乎所有大陆的移民在第一个 "无移民日 "联合起来进行抵抗。

非裔美国人和拉美人的美国历史》是一部自下而上的历史，从非裔美国人和拉美人活动家的角度讲述，揭示了散居各地的人们以截然不同的方式解决今天仍然困扰着美国的问题。