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.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Behnken, Brian D.
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Series:Justice and social inquiry.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Relations with Mexican Americans > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:298 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
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.