{"id":1419,"date":"2014-07-25T21:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T04:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:08:53","slug":"harvest-of-empire-the-story-of-latino-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/harvest-of-empire-the-story-of-latino-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest of Empire &#8211; the story of Latino immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To understand how European and U.S. empire and imperialism has lead to the immigration of Latinos into the United States, read <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/4jjH7Z\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op-harvest-of-empire\">Harvest of Empire (introduction and excerpts)<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juan_Gonzalez_(journalist)\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op-juan-gonzales\"> Juan Gonzalez <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in and concerned by the recent surge in immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, you will be interested in reading this book.  And you will find that the true history may not be what you thought it was.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear Juan Gonzalez most days on radio where he co-hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/stations\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op-dn-stations\"> Democracy Now which airs on many radio and internet stations<\/a>.  Democrary Now airs on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstreamnetwork.com\/listen\/player.asp?station=kpfk-fm\" target-new=\"tab\" target=\"op-kpfk-stream\">KPFK FM Los Angeles radio stream<\/a> at 6:00 AM and 9:00 AM each week day morning.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Allard<br \/>\nSanta Monica<br \/>\nJuly 25, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand how European and U.S. empire and imperialism has lead to the immigration of Latinos into the United States, read Harvest of Empire (introduction and excerpts) by Juan Gonzalez . If you are interested in and concerned by the recent surge in immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexican border, you will be interested in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/harvest-of-empire-the-story-of-latino-immigrants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harvest of Empire &#8211; the story of Latino immigrants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}