WBAI-NYC Upcoming Program

Reclaiming American History: an intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American, Latinx and Indigenous Peoples’ civil rights
with
Paul Ortiz, professor of history and director of the Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 and An African American and Latinx History of the United States
and
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, is an American historian, writer and feminist, She is the author of The Great Sioux Nation, Caught in the Crossfire, Roots of Resistance, Blood on the Border and An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

            An epic, panoramic account of class struggles in the Western
            Hemisphere. At center stage are the Black, Latinx, and Indigenous
            people who built the ‘new world’

Spanning more hundreds of years, indigenous peoples history, and the African American and Latinx history of the United States are revolutionary. They are politically charged narratives arguing that the Global South was crucial to the development of America as we know it. They challenge the notion of westward progress, as exalted by widely taught formulations such as “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and show 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