Black and brown in America
Subtitle: the case for cooperation
By: Bill Piatt.
Series: Critical America
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: African Americans -- Relations with Hispanic Americans; Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Social conditions
Description: In this brief, accessible, impassioned volume, Bill Piatt surveys Black/Brown relations in their entirety, devoting chapters to such issues as competition in a shrinking labor market, the re-segregation of our public schools, the language barrier, gang warfare, and voting coalitions.

Reviewing similarities and differences between the Black and Brown experience in America, Bill Piatt emphasizes the need for solidarity, cooperation, and mutual understanding and offers explicit proposals for greater racial harmony. Blacks and Browns must get along not only for their sake, he argues, but in the interest of a stronger, more stable America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: The way we are; title: How did we get here?; title: Who are we really?; title: Jobs : competing for a shrinking pie?; title: Education : a crumbling commitment; title: Language : speaking to, and about, one another; title: Gangs; title: Voting : coalition or collision?; title: Bringing us together.