The struggle in black and brown
Subtitle: African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era
By: edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken
Series: Justice and social inquiry
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803262713
Subjects: Race relations; Civil rights; Ethnic relations; Civil rights movements; Mexican Americans; Relations with Mexican Americans; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Brian D. Behnken; title: Not similar enough: Mexican American and African American civil rights: struggles in the 1940s / Lisa Y. Ramos; title: The movement in the mirror: civil rights and the causes of black-brown disunity in Texas; title: Brian D. Behnken; title: Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza; title: The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman; title: "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson; title: Cesar and Martin, March 68 / Jorge Mariscal; title: Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler; title: Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener; title: Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in south central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas; title: A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. Whitaker.