In a series of dispatches, Juan Gonzalez uncovers and celebrates the unacknowledged concerns and perspectives of those who make up the "other" America. As a founding member of the Young Lords, a group of young revolutionaries seeking self-empowerment and visibility for the Laino community, and in his current position as a columnist for the "New York Daily News", Gonzalez has a unique perspective on this subject. Reporting from a variety of flashpoints - the Eastern Airlines picket line, the burning streets of South Central ...
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In a series of dispatches, Juan Gonzalez uncovers and celebrates the unacknowledged concerns and perspectives of those who make up the "other" America. As a founding member of the Young Lords, a group of young revolutionaries seeking self-empowerment and visibility for the Laino community, and in his current position as a columnist for the "New York Daily News", Gonzalez has a unique perspective on this subject. Reporting from a variety of flashpoints - the Eastern Airlines picket line, the burning streets of South Central LA, a snake-infested apartment building in the Bronx, the emergency ward of an overcrowded New York hospital - Gonzalez paints a radical portrait of the struggles, hopes and needs of those categorized as the urban poor and working class. This book emphasizes the increasingly important contributions of Latino culture and labour in the United States. In reports from Puerto Rico, Panama, Haiti, Honduras and Mexico, the author traces the sources of this influence, revealing the social and economic pressures that drive people north - and US businessses south. If ever a "problem" could be said to exist, Gonzales argues, it is in the factories and fields of this Americanized Latin America.
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New York. 1995. Verso. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0860914496. 240 pages. hardcover. keywords: America Sociology Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Juan Gonzalez, described by the Village Voice as 'the most radical person in the above-it-all world of New York daily journalism, ' is a reporter who takes as his beat the streets and projects of America's inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these passionate and vivid despatches, he reports from the frontline of a social crisis which stretches from New York to Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico's maquiladoras, through to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba. Written not just about the ghetto, but from it, Gonzalez's stories portray workers on strike, refugees on the run, owners on the make and a journalist on the case. Together they bring us face to face with 'human beings whose tragedies illuminate the landscape of a forgotten America. ' inventory #22293.
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