The Struggle in black and brown: African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era

Abstract

List of Illustrations 000 Introduction 000 Brian D. Behnken 1. Not Similar Enough: American and African American Civil Rights Struggles in the 1940s 000 Lisa Y. Ramos 2. The Movement in the Mirror: Civil Rights and the Causes of Black-Brown Disunity in Texas 000 Brian D. Behnken 3. Complicating the Beloved Community: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association 000 Lauren Araiza 4. The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-Brown Strife in the War on Poverty in Los Angeles 000 Robert Bauman 5. Mexican versus Negro Approaches to the War on Poverty: Black-Brown Competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas 000 William Clayson 6. Cesar and Martin, March 68 000 Jorge Mariscal 7. Black, Brown, and Poor: Civil Rights and the Making of the Chicano Movement 000 Gordon Mantler 8. Brown-Eyed Soul: Popular Music and Cultural Politics in Los Angeles 000 Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener 9. Raising a Neighborhood: Informal Networks between African American and American Women in South Central Los Angeles 000 Abigail Rosas 10. A New Day in Babylon: African American and American Relations at the Dawn of the Millennium 000 Matthew C. Whitaker List of Contributors 000Index 000