The struggle in Black and brown : African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era / edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Behnken, Brian D.

Series:

Justice and social inquiry.

Justice and social inquiry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Mexican Americans--Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

African Americans--Relations with Mexican Americans--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between blacks and browns during the civil rights era, carefully examines the complex and multifaceted realities that complicate such assumptions-and that revise our view of both the civil rights struggle and black-brown relations in recent history. Unique in its focus, innovative in its methods, and broad in its approach to various locales and time periods, the book provides key perspectives to understanding the development of America's ethnic

Contents:

Introduction / Brian D. Behnken

Not similar enough: Mexican American and African American civil rights struggles in the 1940s / Lisa Y. Ramos

The movement in the mirror: civil rights and the causes of Black-brown disunity in Texas

Brian D. Behnken

Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza

The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman

"Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson

Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal

Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler

Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener

Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas

A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. Whitaker.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613593030

9781280497803

1280497807

9780803262744

0803262744

OCLC:

793511403