"A sweeping history of the Latinx experience in the United States. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries--from the European colonization of the Americas to the 2020 election. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American culture and politics is greater than ever. With family portraits of real-life immigrant Latino...

Debido a nuestro idioma inglés compartido, así como a las célebres historias de origen del Mayflower y la rebelión de las colonias británicas, Estados Unidos ha valorado su herencia anglosajona por encima de todas las demás. Sin embargo, como Carrie Gibson explica con gran profundidad y claridad en El Norte, la nación tiene raíces españolas mucho más antiguas, que durante mucho tiempo han sido ignoradas o marginadas. El pasado hispano de...

"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. Scholar and activist Paul 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,...