The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era

Contents

List of Illustrations . . vii Abbreviations Used in the Text . . ix Introduction . . 1 B RI A N D. B EH N K EN 1. Not Similar Enough: Mexican American and African American Civil Rights Struggles in the 1940s . . 19 L I SA Y. R A M OS 2. The Movement in the Mirror: Civil Rights and the Causes of Black-Brown Disunity in Texas . . 49 B RI A N D. B EH N K EN 3. Complicating the Beloved Community: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association . . 78 L AU R EN A R A I Z A 4. The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-Brown Strife in the War on Poverty in Los Angeles . . 104 RO B E RT BAU M A N 5. “Mexican versus Negro Approaches” to the War on Poverty: Black-Brown Competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas . . 125 W I L L I A M C L AYSO N 6. Cesar and Martin, March ’68 . . 148 J O RG E M A RI S C A L CONTENTS 7. Black, Brown, and Poor: Civil Rights and the Making of the Chicano Movement . . 179 G O R D O N M A N T L E R 8. Brown-Eyed Soul: Popular Music and Cultural Politics in Los Angeles . . 211 LU I S A LVA R E Z A N D DA N I E L W I D EN E R 9. Raising a Neighborhood: Informal Networks between African American and Mexican American Women in South Central Los Angeles . . 237 A B I GA I L ROSAS 10. A New Day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American Relations at the Dawn of the Millennium . . 257 M AT T H E W C. W H I TA K E R List of Contributors . . 287 Index . . 291 ...