Paul Ortiz is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920 (University of California Press) and An African American and Latinx History of the United States, which Fortune Magazine cited in 2020 as one of the 10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States. He is currently writing A Social Movement History of the United States for Beacon Press. He is a Professor of Labor History at Cornell University and an affiliate faculty member of Cornell’s Latino Studies Program. He joined Cornell in 2024 and previously served as director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and Professor of History at the University of Florida.
After the 2024 Elections: Where Do We Go from Here?
Against the Current, No. 240, January/February 2026
The Pursuit of Truth in the Delta
Against the Current, No. 204, January/February 2020
1919 Elaine Massacre
Against the Current, No. 204, January/February 2020
Florida Today: "Worse Than Mississippi"
Against the Current, No. 181, March/April 2016
C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against the Current, No. 156, January/February 2012
Segregation and Black Labor Before the CIO
Against the Current, No. 138, January/February 2009
The Reparations Demand in History
Against the Current, No. 102, January/February 2003
The Anatomy of A Rebellion
Against the Current, No. 84, January/February 2000
Convict Labor in America
Against the Current, No. 72, January/February 1998
African-American Resistance to Jim Crow in the South
Against the Current, No. 60, January/February 1996