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DESCRIPTION:Paul Ortiz' new book An African American and Latinx History of the United 
 States is the latest in Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History 
 series. (Previous titles include Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz's An Indigenous 
 People's History of the United States.)\n\nOrtiz' book examines U.S. 
 history through the lens of African-American and Latinx activists. Much of 
 the American history taught in schools is limited to white America, leaving 
 out the impact of non-European immigrants and indigenous peoples. The 
 author corrects that error in a thorough look at the debt of gratitude we 
 owe to the Haitian Revolution, the Mexican War of Independence, and the 
 Cuban War of Independence, all struggles that helped lead to social 
 democracy.\n\nOrtiz shows the history of the workers for what it really 
 was: a fatal intertwining of slavery, racial capitalism, and imperialism. 
 He states that the American Revolution began as a war of independence and 
 became a war to preserve slavery. Thus, slavery is the foundation of 
 American prosperity. With the end of slavery, imperialist America exported 
 segregation laws and labor discrimination abroad. As we moved into Cuba, 
 the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, we stole their land for American 
 corporations and used the Army to enforce draconian labor laws. This 
 continued in the South and in California.\n\nThe rise of agriculture in the 
 US could not have succeeded without cheap labor. Mexican workers were often 
 preferred because, if they demanded rights, they could just be deported. 
 Convict labor worked even better. The author points out the only way 
 success has been gained is by organizing; a great example was the “Day 
 without Immigrants” in 2006. Of course, as Ortiz rightly notes, much more 
 work is necessary, especially since Jim Crow and Juan Crow are resurging as 
 each political gain is met with “legal” countermeasures.\n\nThis book 
 is a concise, alternate history of the United States “about how people 
 across the hemisphere wove together antislavery, anticolonial, pro-freedom, 
 and pro-working-class movements against tremendous obstacles.” It is a 
 sleek, vital history that effectively shows how, “from the outset, 
 inequality was enforced with the whip, the gun, and the United States 
 Constitution.”\n\nNo admission charge.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/01/18806439.php
SUMMARY:An African American and Latinx History of the United States
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