num_pages: 361
description: Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party El Centro de Accin Social y Autonomo (CASA) and East Wind a Japanese American collective she explores how these African American Chicana/o and Japanese American groups sought to realize their ideas about race and class gender relations and multiracial alliances. Based on thorough research as well as extensive interviews Black Brown Yellow and Left explores the differences and similarities between these organizations the strengths and weaknesses of the third world left as a whole and the ways that differential racialization led to distinct forms of radical politics. Pulido provides a masterly nuanced analysis of complex political events organizations and experiences. She gives special prominence to multiracial activism and includes an engaging account of where the activists are today together with a consideration of the implications for contemporary social justice organizing.
language: English
title: Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (Volume 19)
publisher: University of California Press