Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

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Price
$16.87
Format
Paperback
Pages
416
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0143119289
Dimensions
5.42 x 0.92 x 8.36 inches
Weight
9.6 ounces

Description

"A serious, significant contribution to understanding who the Hispanics of the United States are and where they came from." -- The New York Times Book Review "Required reading, not simply for Latinos but for everyone." -- Kansas City Star Juan Gonzalez is one of this country s best-known Latino journalists. He was a staff columnist for New York s Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now! He is the author of Harvest of Empire , News for All the People , Fallout , and Reclaiming Gotham . Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, New York."

Features & Highlights

  • A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated.
  • 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 first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. Featuring family portraits of real- life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as accounts of the events and conditions that compelled them to leave their homelands, Harvest of Empire is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and legacy of this increasingly influential group.

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Good Book with Latino History

The book came in good condition no rips and any other damage.
Now for the content: if you want to learn about part of the history of the latino countries and the involvement the U.S had (has) with this countries this is the book. It's explores alot about Puerto Rico,Mexico, Dominic Republic,Honduras, and more. As the author is Puerto Rican himself he shows his family experience and his thoughts on a conflict no yet spoken about but seen in todays atmosphere about Puerto Rico dependency, on the U.S. and how seeking a less dependency between each other is what (some) puerto ricans want. The political views the United States tried or accomplish in this countries and the effects it had economically and politically in them.
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