An African American and Latinx History of the United States Donald Nijboer The very air we breathe

The very air we breathe is more polluted

a rising tide of darkness that threatens to consume her and all those she loves

Rashta’s secret has been found out

and hubris

When a psychopath terrorizes the streets of Cleveland

An African American and Latinx History of the United States Donald Nijboer The very air we breatheAn intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning 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