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For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims by a century and has been every bit as important in shaping the nation.
El Norte chronicles the sweeping and dramatic history of Hispanic North America from the arrival of the Spanish to the present - from Ponce de Leon's initial landing in Florida in 1513 to Spanish control of the vast Louisiana territory in 1762 to the Mexican-American War in 1846 and up to the more recent tragedy of post-hurricane Puerto Rico and the ongoing border acrimony with Mexico. Interwoven in this stirring narrative of events and people are cultural issues that have been there from the start and remain unresolved language, belonging, community, race and nationality. Seeing them play out over centuries provides vital perspective at a time when it is urgently needed.
In 1883, Walt Whitman wrote 'to that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts.' That future is here, and El Norte, an emotive and eventful history in its own right, will have a powerful impact on our perception of the United States.
Read El Norte The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America eBook Carrie Gibson
"Excellent read."
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El Norte The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America eBook Carrie Gibson Reviews
- At present it feels like more people are emboldened about aggressively pushing a message that amounts to this - the US, a nation that started as a a bunch of mainly English settlers on the east coast who pushed west into the wilderness, is in danger from those who come from south of the Rio Grande, whose distinct otherness threatens to undermine the identity of the United States.
Of course this is all absolute nonsense, as should be made clear by any decent grasp of American history, and is made especially and undeniably obvious in Carrie Gibson's new book, "El Norte." In this comprehensive work, Gibson provides a sweeping and also eminently readable overview of Hispanic North America. Not only is it incredibly informative with its multi-leveled coverage, but from start to end this book strives to make it perfectly plain in every way possible that these regions, their peoples, and various cultures are very, very, very, very much a part of the United States, and that to try and argue otherwise (in good faith, at least) is simply not possible. "El Norte" is exactly the kind of books we currently need more of, and I greatly look forward to recommending it to others whenever possible. - Gibson provides a welcomed addition of the origins of the United States in its Spanish roots and explores how the country was formed from the South in Florida to the Southwest through Mexico. The history of the U.S. as seen through the development and loss of its Spanish and Mexican origins to its Anglo-centric is important in fully understanding the sprawling foundation of the country. Americans can't help but speak Spanish when naming Western states or places in Florida and yet many never understand why or if they are even speaking Spanish. The recent flap about Border Patrol questioning two women speaking Spanish in the state of Montana is a good example of this. Montana, of course, is derived from the Spanish word Montaña, or mountain. Americans are woefully under-educated when it comes to these origins. This is an important work as the country changes demographically and the Latino population increases in size and influence.
- Excellent read.
- El Norte by Carrie Gibson is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late December.
Oop, this’ll likely have some carryover from reading América…. somewhat the chapters are about the outcomes of individual cities between 1492 and the present day, though not quite from where you’d expect (i.e. obviously San Antonio, Nogales, and New Orleans, but also Santa Elena, SC, and New Madrid, MO). Gibson questions concepts of cultural ethnography, American multiculturalism alongside travelling through the bottom south of the United States, looping up to Alaska, then going back through the Midwest and into the East Coast. The cities in the chapters make up a shaky, loose, symbolic framework of the goings-on up until the 1800s when it becomes much more area-specific when talking about borrowing Cuban and Mexican culture, like art, music, dance and Zorro, Chicano activism for unionization, NAFTA, and politics and the immigration of refugees. - I was excited to find this book and glad to see it.
One thing the author doesn't know or didn't want to write about is in the section on the Grape strikes organized by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. My mother being legal through the Bracero Program and first generation American from Mexico actually started buying grapes as a reaction to the strikers. She felt the strong call to end the Bracero Program and Close the Border to all immigrants was not fair. I remember her anger at how "they want to close the door that was open to them". She really felt strong about that.
The author does in another section cover more details on the Bracero Program but leaves out the high tension between those who wanted to make farm worker organizing easier by keeping out any new immigrants legal or illegal. Ending the Bracero program with nothing in place to replace it could be part of the current problem.
