Roll Down Your Window:Stories of a Forgotten America

This study emphasizes increasingly important contributions of Latino culture and labour in the USA. In reports from Puerto Rico, Panama, Haiti, Honduras and Mexico, the author traces the sources of Latino influence, revealing the social and economic pressures that drive people north.

New York Daily News reporter Juan Gonzalez takes as his beat the streets and projects of America’s inner cities and the barrios across its southern borders. In these vivid dispatches he reports from the frontline of a social crisis—inside New York and Los Angeles, across the Rio Grande to Mexico’s maquiladoras, throught to Haiti, Honduras and Cuba.