Paul Ortiz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Ortiz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Ortiz |
| SIGNATURE | ORTIZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Meeting of Two Worlds—Oral History and Linguistics
Latino Workers, the 2024 Presidential Election and the Future of the Labor Movement
In the aftermath of the Presidential Election of 2024, tens of thousands of Latinx workers and their allies engaged in marches, boycotts, strikes, and other forms of collective action against the federal government's anti-immigrant and anti-labor policies. Mass protests in over 100 cities were aimed at President-elect Trump's threat to deport upwards of ten million immigrants. Belying media stereotypes of passivity, political conservatism, and a …
A Civics Primer for American History
This AHR Roundtable features four short essays on Jill Lepore's widely read synthesis of American history, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018). Lepore's framework insists that the "self-evident" truths of the nation's founding were anything but. The driving force of her narrative is the struggle of those excluded from this magic circle-really, the majority of the country's population-to extend those truths beyond their narrow core…
Emancipation Betrayed
In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles …
Memories of revolution
Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar, “The Glorious Advocates of Liberty”
For African Americans, the struggle against slavery did not begin and end in the United States; it was conceived of as a global conflict. From this perspective, the Haitian Revolution represented a great breakthrough in the Americas. Led by a former house slave by the name of Toussaint L'Ouverture, regiments of ex-slaves defeated colonial armies from England, Spain, and France who sought to re-impose chattel bondage on the former French colony. T…
Making History Matter
This article critically evaluates a comparative ethnic studies course that I have taught at three different universities during the past fifteen years, called “African American and Latina/o Histories.” I am especially interested in the impact this form of education has on participants, many of whom are first-generation college students of color, as well as the ways that course alumni have taken what they have learned in the classroom into their w…
Tearing Up the Master’s Narrative
Stetson Kennedy (1916–2011) was one of the premier dissident writers in the United States in the generation before the emergence of the modern civil rights movement. Yet, despite his extensive work in oral history as a former supervisor of the Works Progress Administration unit on folklore, oral history, and social-ethnic studies in Florida, surprisingly little has been written on Kennedy’s oral history methods. This essay connects Stetson Kenned…
The power of the zoot
In support of our students, in support of the DREAM Act
Behind the Veil
Research Article| January 01 2007 Behind the Veil Paul Ortiz Paul Ortiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 110–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Ortiz; Behind the Veil. Radical History Review 1 January 2007; 2007 (97): 110–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-016 Download citation f…
Emancipation Betrayed
The Promise of Reconstruction 2. The Struggle to Save Democracy 3. We Are in the Hands of the Devil: Fighting Racial Terrorism 4. To Gain These Fruits That Have Been Earned: Emancipation Day 5. To See That None Suffer: Mutual Aid and Resistance 6. Looking for a Free State to Live In 7. Echoes of Emancipation: The Great War in Florida 8. With Babies in Their Arms: The Voter Registration Movement 9. Election Day, 1920 Conclusion: Legacies of the Fl…
The Maya of Morganton
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, Leon Fink. Paul Ortiz Paul Ortiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501588 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Ort…
The Invisible Empire
In vivid, comprehensive, and often grim detail, Invisible Empire charts 130 years of Ku Klux Klan activity in Florida, one of the Klan's most violent and enduring realms. Beginning with the chaotic days of Reconstruction, when Klansmen killed more than 150 victims in a single county, this important history describes the organization's influence on Florida politics and its links to modern law enforcement. From the KKK's heyday during the 1920s and…
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The Invisible Empire
In vivid, comprehensive, and often grim detail, Invisible Empire charts 130 years of Ku Klux Klan activity in Florida, one of the Klan's most violent and enduring realms. Beginning with the chaotic days of Reconstruction, when Klansmen killed more than 150 victims in a single county, this important history describes the organization's influence on Florida politics and its links to modern law enforcement. From the KKK's heyday during the 1920s and…
The Maya of Morganton
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, Leon Fink. Paul Ortiz Paul Ortiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 24 (2): 139–140. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501588 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Ort…
Emancipation Betrayed
The Promise of Reconstruction 2. The Struggle to Save Democracy 3. We Are in the Hands of the Devil: Fighting Racial Terrorism 4. To Gain These Fruits That Have Been Earned: Emancipation Day 5. To See That None Suffer: Mutual Aid and Resistance 6. Looking for a Free State to Live In 7. Echoes of Emancipation: The Great War in Florida 8. With Babies in Their Arms: The Voter Registration Movement 9. Election Day, 1920 Conclusion: Legacies of the Fl…
Behind the Veil
Research Article| January 01 2007 Behind the Veil Paul Ortiz Paul Ortiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 110–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Ortiz; Behind the Veil. Radical History Review 1 January 2007; 2007 (97): 110–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-016 Download citation f…
In support of our students, in support of the DREAM Act
The power of the zoot
Tearing Up the Master’s Narrative
Stetson Kennedy (1916–2011) was one of the premier dissident writers in the United States in the generation before the emergence of the modern civil rights movement. Yet, despite his extensive work in oral history as a former supervisor of the Works Progress Administration unit on folklore, oral history, and social-ethnic studies in Florida, surprisingly little has been written on Kennedy’s oral history methods. This essay connects Stetson Kenned…
Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar, “The Glorious Advocates of Liberty”
For African Americans, the struggle against slavery did not begin and end in the United States; it was conceived of as a global conflict. From this perspective, the Haitian Revolution represented a great breakthrough in the Americas. Led by a former house slave by the name of Toussaint L'Ouverture, regiments of ex-slaves defeated colonial armies from England, Spain, and France who sought to re-impose chattel bondage on the former French colony. T…
Making History Matter
This article critically evaluates a comparative ethnic studies course that I have taught at three different universities during the past fifteen years, called “African American and Latina/o Histories.” I am especially interested in the impact this form of education has on participants, many of whom are first-generation college students of color, as well as the ways that course alumni have taken what they have learned in the classroom into their w…
Emancipation Betrayed
In this penetrating examination of African American politics and culture, Paul Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. Concentrating on the period between the end of slavery and the election of 1920, Emancipation Betrayed vividly demonstrates that the decades leading up to the historic voter registration drive of 1919-20 were marked by intense battles …
Memories of revolution
A Civics Primer for American History
This AHR Roundtable features four short essays on Jill Lepore's widely read synthesis of American history, These Truths: A History of the United States (2018). Lepore's framework insists that the "self-evident" truths of the nation's founding were anything but. The driving force of her narrative is the struggle of those excluded from this magic circle-really, the majority of the country's population-to extend those truths beyond their narrow core…
A Meeting of Two Worlds—Oral History and Linguistics
Latino Workers, the 2024 Presidential Election and the Future of the Labor Movement
In the aftermath of the Presidential Election of 2024, tens of thousands of Latinx workers and their allies engaged in marches, boycotts, strikes, and other forms of collective action against the federal government's anti-immigrant and anti-labor policies. Mass protests in over 100 cities were aimed at President-elect Trump's threat to deport upwards of ten million immigrants. Belying media stereotypes of passivity, political conservatism, and a …
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works)