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 shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism. Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links the struggle of African American civil rights activists fighting Jim Crow laws, of Mexican labor organizers warring against capitalism, of abolitionists, and of Latin American revolutionaries, revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the US today.