Harvest of Empire (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Juan González
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: History and current affairs
- Time of Work: 1500-1999
- Setting: Central America and North America
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, Immigration or emigration, Mexican Americans, Cuba or Cubans, Mexico or Mexicans, Economic conditions, Central America or Central Americans, Latinos, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans, Dominican Republican or Dominicans
- Locales: Central America, North America
Juan González, a columnist with the New York Daily News, is a former left-wing political activist and one of the founders of the Puerto Rican radical group the Young Lords. The author’s activism and his political orientations shape his history of Latinos in North America. His fundamental thesis is that United States imperialism in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South and Central America has impoverished the people of the Spanish-speaking nations and created links between the North American power and its southern neighbors. Heavy Latino immigration into the United States at the end...
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