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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822352803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-280-49780-7; 9786613593030; 0-8032-6274-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Collana: Justice and social inquiry
• Altri autori (Persone): BehnkenBrian D
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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