The citation above will include either 2 or 3 dates. The film examines how U.S. intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean forced millions of people to leave their homes to migrate to the United States. Balaguer won that election. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and . The second date is today's By Juan Gonzlez (Penguin, Updated Release 2011), Harvest of Empire: New Book Exposes Latino History in America as Obama Campaigns for Latino Vote, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License, Sudans Army Agrees to 24-Hour Ceasefire with Rival Faction as Civilian Toll Mounts, Kansas City Homeowner Charged for Shooting Black Teen Who Rang Wrong Doorbell, Grand Jury Wont Indict Akron, Ohio, Police Officers Who Shot Jayland Walker 46 Times, Two Indianapolis Cops Charged with Manslaughter for Killing Herman Whitfield in Parents Home, Video Shows New Mexico Police Fatally Shooting Homeowner After Knocking on Wrong Door, Florida Gov. Time Periods: All US History co-host Juan Gonzlez, Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nations cultural and economic landscape. 18 Apr. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also fielded questions about immigration during a Wednesday appearance on Univision. The history will say what we are. GLENN BECK: They put a strain on our Social Security, our education, our healthcare. The book Harvest of Empire offers many examples of the factors leading to migration, which include economic and political persecution. JACK CAFFERTY: Once again, the streets of our country were taken over today by people who dont belong here. Co-host Juan Gonzlez, Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation's cultural and economic landscape. Note: When citing an online source, it is important to include all necessary dates. SISTER PAT MURRAY: As the crowd started to grow, they realized that this was going to be a very difficult time. They are here because we were there. This perpetual territorial expansion, justified under the idea of Manifest Destiny, persisted throughout colonial history, as America acquired Florida, then Texas, and, through the Mexican War, the territory now included in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, as well as lands won in the Spanish-American War. AMY GOODMAN: Were spending the hour talking about a new film, given the significance of the issue of immigration in this country today. 0W7H.m(]]JqA\Tl|{M~;Y(]r? They were just captured as a prize of war in the Spanish-American War, 1898, by the United States and declared citizens by Congress against the objectionsthe unanimous objection of the House of Delegates of Puerto Rico, which in 1917 rejected citizenship, voted unanimously against U.S. citizenship. And we beingboth of us being Latino immigrantsWendy from Peru and me from El Salvadorwe knew the real story. Gonzlez is a columnist at the New York Daily News and author of three other books, including News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media. Were also joined by the films co-director, Eduardo Lpez. The film is based on a book by Juan Gonzlez , Democracy Now! But that really was from the 60s into the 90s, you had throughout Latin America the rule of these dictators and military leaders that were largely backed by the United States. Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America. My book actually came out in 1999 initially, and its now, I think, used in about 200 college courses around the country as sort of an introductory survey text on the Latino community in the United States. Well continue this discussion in a moment. The last date is today's Gonzalez notes that the United States bid for independence from Britain transformed them from a series of disjointed colonies into an Empire. AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to a part of Harvest of Empire that deals with the assassination of Archbishop scar Romero on March 24th, 1980, in El Salvador. Log in here. Gonzalez argues that, contrary to popular opinion and despite their undervaluation, Latinos have been part of the United States since before the arrivals of Anglo colonists. And you had the poultry industry in Arkansas, and you had the textile industry in North Carolina. Full Interview: Frank Mugisha on New Anti-, Former Guantnamo Prisoners Ask Biden to Let Them Keep Art They Made to Escape Inhumane Conditions, Landmark U.N. Juan Gonzlez is a journalist and political activist of Puerto Rican descent who has worked as a columnist for the New York Daily News. Presents a history of Latinos in America, from the first colonies in the New World through today, and offers portraits of distinguished Americans of Hispanic descent that have played a key role in the evolving face of American life. In 2013, the film received one of the most prestigious awards in Latino entertainment the Imagen Award as Best Documentary for Film or Television. JUNOT DAZ: Well, they said, Were coming to the United States. Whatever that meant. For all the talk about immigration, rarely does the conversation veer into why so many Latinos have come to the United States. Harvest of Empire ends with Gonzalez outlining six provisions that he believes will help decrease both illegal immigration to the United States and help repair many Latin American nations that continue to suffer as a result of US interference: First, Gonzalez champions the implementation of a common labor policy along the Mexican border to end the exploitation of undocumented workers. publication online or last modification online. The entire Southwest of the United States was taken from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846. 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", "I urge everyone who wants to understand how we got here to watch the powerful 2012 documentary Harvest of Empire (based on Juan Gonzlezs book of the same name), so that we can collectively remember the direct correlation between the United States interventions in Latin America and the injustices in our immigration system today. At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, the new feature-length documentary, Harvest of Empire, examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. And yet, how is it that in only 32 years we are about to become the third-largest Latino population in the United States? We need to provide a long-term solution, and Ive described the fact that I would be in support of a program that said that people who served in our military could be permanent residents of the United States. Documentary Film Screening - Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM The new documentary Harvest of Empire examines the direct correlation between. And once thewith the ending of World War II and with the independence movements that developed throughout Asia and Africa and Latin America, the peoples of those former colonial countries are coming to the metropolis, and theyre changing, transforming the very composition of those nations, and so that, for us, the United States, its not even anwere not dealing with this immigration, quote, problem alone. Obama called the lack of immigration reform the biggest failure of his presidency but attempted to shift blame for the failure to Republicans. Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez: what are chapters 15 about, with details? ", "The recent reemergence of immgration as a pressing matter in U.S. politics makes HARVEST OF EMPIRE a especially timely documentary. JUNOT DAZ: Im here because the United States invaded my country in 1965, an illegal invasion, completely trumped-up excuse to invade the Dominican Republic and crush our democratic hopes. And the Puerto Ricans never went anywhere. This led to a rise in broader anti-immigrant attitudes, which negatively impacted many Latin American groups. A year earlier, Penguin Books published a revised edition of the book of Empire:Harvest A History Using rarely seen newsreel footage and interviews with prominent migrants from countries in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, the film puts a human face on an issue too often reduced to vulgar stereotyping. The film examines how New York Daily News columnist. As a result, many Central Americans migrated north to the United States in search of better opportunities. However, subsequent generations rejected this effort at assimilations and instead developed a sense of Latin American identity that focused on civil rights and cultural diversity. The U.S. Army trained a new Dominican National Guard. Harvest of Empire is a nonfiction book by Juan Gonzalez that examines the historical relationship between Latin America and the United States. I want to play a clip from Harvest of Empire that talks about the history of U.S. involvement in the Dominican Republic, where many of the immigrants here in New York City hail from. pt. Eduardo Lpez is with us. AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Juan Gonzlez and Eduardo Lpez. We all have the same potential. JUAN GONZLEZ: America has always been a nation in the process of becoming, in process of change. Gonzalez uses his own account of being of Puerto Rican descent to emphasize the ways in which the status of Puerto Ricans as both US citizens and foreigners has left many Puerto Rican immigrants without a strong sense of cultural identity. This is viewer supported news. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. I immigrated in 1974, a few months before the fall of Saigon. JUAN GONZLEZ: Well, I think that thethat sent a message throughout Latin America in that period of time that the United States, coming out of the Kennedy era, the Alliance for Progress era, that the United States now was the enemy of change, because obviouslyJuan Bosch was not a revolutionary by any stretch of the imagination; he was a liberal democrat who wanted to have land reform and wanted to have some basic changes in the lives of the Dominican people. Humanities NY, Ford Foundation, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and individual donors. Harvest of Empire attempts to fill in the gaps, and the reasons dont include some naive notion about streets being paved with goldRaises a very important moral question, and one that rarely enters the immigration debate: If America is responsible for destabilizing a country, what is our role when the countrys citizens suffer as a result?, Rachel Saltz, N.Y. Times Harvest of Empire has a journalistic pedigree and a punch that comes from political advocacyThe filmmakers retain a touching faith that most Americans wont tolerate injustice when they know about it. But thats not the case. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. Subscribe to receive our monthly updates. "The film broadens the frame to examine Latin American migration to the United States in the wider context of an interconnected history of the Americas Each segment is made fresh through riveting archival footage and personal stories. EDUARDO LPEZ: I think that if Governor Romney had ever bothered to meet one of the torture victims of the death squads or one of the family members of the people who were brutally killed during that time, maybe he would have thought twice about accepting that blood money. Thats Jean. All Rights Reserved. ", "Directors Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez wisely strip their argument of passion, and pile on history and facts to highlight the U.S. role in the surge of immigrants crossing the border in the past century a refreshing approach in this age of punditry and choir-preaching. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-02-28 22:20:03 Boxid IA178901 Boxid_2 CH128520 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donor And with her, we felt in 2005 that the kind of language that was being used to describe immigrants, and specifically Latino immigrants, in the media was just unacceptable. Meanwhile, appearing Sunday on ABCs This Week, conservative pundit Ann Coulter argued immigrant rights should not be considered civil rights. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. You know, so Mexicans often say, the originalthe descendants of those original settlers, We didnt cross the border. JUAN GONZLEZ: They never teach us in school that the huge Latino presence here is a direct result of our own governments actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many decades. And I think everybody here remembers where we were four years ago. : El Huracn over language and culture ; Free trade : the final conquest of Latin America ; Puerto Rico, U.S.A. : possessed and unwanted -- Epilogue -- Glossary The post-9/11 world has made immigration an even more pressing issue. A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. 2012. Then, the Guardia opened fire. JUAN GONZLEZ: In 1963, you have the election of Juan Bosch. And this is another reason why we just felt really compelled to make this film and to work through the seven years in order to bring this to fruition. We thank you so much. And he appears in the film throughout. And in just about all the cases when you look at history, you see very clearly, as Juan explains in the book, that our different waves of migration are connected to actions that the United States took in our countries, in different times for different reasons, but its very consistent throughout history, this connection between our foreign policy and immigration. publication in traditional print. JUAN GONZLEZ: Yeah, well, I think that throughout Central Americain Salvador, in Nicaragua, in Hondurastheres always been a very small elite that has benefited from being a comprador group, basically facilitating the exploitation of their own countries by American businesses, largely. JUAN GONZLEZ: Its a different perspective on this side of the table. Harvest of Empire is both a work of investigative journalism and a political statement, and it applies a critical lens to the history of United States intervention in Latin America. The first was in 1916. So, you wrote this book years ago, Juan. Spanning 500 yearsfrom the first New World colonies to our nation's nineteenth-century westward expansion, from the days of gunboat diplomacy to the turn of the millenniumHarvest of Empire features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their . Gonzalez traces the particular paths of different Latino groups, including Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, and Dominicans. Latino Impact Media, 2018. AMY GOODMAN: Pulitzer Prize-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Daz in Harvest of Empire. FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS: I had never seen anything like El Salvador. JUAN GONZLEZ: There have been two major U.S. occupations of the Dominican Republic. Synopsis. Fifth, he encourages an immediate cessation of all United States military involvement in Latin America. )lJhn.) When the rebels finally agreed to lay down their arms, the United States government scheduled new elections, but it also allowed the right-hand man of Trujillo, Joaqun Balaguer, to run in those elections for president. And I think thats a key issue that I have in my book and that the film tries to provide with new examples, because my examples are older. Furthermore, the arbitrarily placed national borders separated families and communities that had inhabited the land for centuries. He would disappear Dominican and American citizens and kill them with impunity. But the Bosch government didnt last for very long. I was more frightened there than Vietnam. It is opening at the Laemmle Theater in Pasadena in California and at the Quad theater here in New York on 13th Street on Friday through October 4th. However, Gonzalez notes that the loss of US citizenship would negatively impact many Puerto Ricans. 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Gonzalez transitions into a discussion of Puerto Ricos status as a United States unincorporated commonwealth. Immigrants havent even been in this country., JUAN GONZLEZ: Well, Ann Coulter neglects to deal with the reality of U.S.-Mexican history. @)4Y t(}&&18Nq\XwJDet~V Gonzalez seeks to reveal the story hidden behind many of these stereotypes as he explores over 500 years of history, providing readers with a fuller and more honest account of the past. And it is the harvest of the empires that made those countries so wealthy. is a timely and generally effective antidote to the dangerous xenophobia that is the true virus threaten-ing the integrity of essential American ideals. hTn6EE q8C@ IHvdakb/G*/Dr^rrc'yL]]zL._fq4DQ_~r~}\o^i0ry "@H 32O nL7%'K$H,`N0'#####&fEDDGGGG+. In 2013, Harvest of Empire was also named winner of the ABC News Source Award from the International Documentary Association. This is what Ive really been amazed at, in each of these countries, whether its Guatemala, the footage of the actual coup against rbenz in 1954, and this incredible footage thats never been seen in the United States. This clip features the voices of Sister Pat Murray, former U.S. In Harvest of Empire, Juan Gonzalez tells a sweeping history of Latinos in the United States, from the early colonial era to the present day. Some investors had extensive ties to death squads responsible for a vast majority of the deaths in Salvador in the 1980s. California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Coloradothis was all part of Mexico. Harvest of Empire Affect and a Counternarrative of Latino/a Migration Lauren E. Shaw In September 2012 the documentary of Empire:Harvest The Untold Story of Latinos in America was released in the United States. AMY GOODMAN: In fact, Mitt Romney talks about people should self-deport. Documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. In fact, he got much louder applause than President Obama did. ", "Harvest of Empire is a breakthrough documentary in the way it connects the historical interaction between the US and Latin America with the immigration debate. AMY GOODMAN: Were going to break and then come back to this discussion and what it means in 2012 with the elections here, immigration policy. Many Latin American countries tried to ally themselves with the United States in the wake of the revolutionary war, but the United States often proved to be a fickle ally. which is why we all need to be part of the struggle for rights, equality and justice. hdAk@27l4"zj@Pyh) is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization. Now, this is something we reported on and discussed on Democracy Now! Its on 13th Street. 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