The collection is framed around the concept of “activism,” which most fully encompasses the relationships that blacks and Latinos have enjoyed throughout the twentieth century. Wide ranging and pioneering, Civil Rights and Beyond explores black and Latino/a activism from California to Florida, Chicago to Bakersfield—and a host of other communities and cities—to demonstrate the complicated nature of African American–Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States.
Contributors: Brian D. Behnken, Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Alyssa Ribeiro, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, and Jakobi Williams
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780820349176
Media Type: Paperback(Reprint)
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Date: 04-01-2016
Pages: 280
Product Dimensions: 8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.80(d)
About the Author
DAN BERGER is a professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and the author of the award-winning Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, among other titles. He writes regularly for Black Perspectives, Truthout, and the Washington Post and has published articles in several scholarly journals. He is a founding coordinator of the digital archive Washington Prison History Project. BRIAN D. BEHNKEN is an associate professor of history and Latino/a studies at Iowa State University. He is the author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas, The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era, and Crossing Boundaries: Ethnicity, Race, and National Belonging in a Transnational World.
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