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Upsetting the apple cart : Black-Latino coalitions in New York City from protest to public office /

Upsetting the Apple Cart looks at the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Opie, Frederick Douglass (Author)
Other Authors: Perales, James (Cover designer)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Series:Columbia history of urban life.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Journeys: Black and Latino Relations, 1930-1970; 2. Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black and Puerto Rican Hospital Workers, 1959-1962; 3. Developing Their Minds Without Losing Their Souls: Black and Latino Student Coalition Building, 1965-1969; 4. Young Turks: Progressive Activists and Organizations, 1970-1985; 5. Coalition Politics, 1982-1984: The Chicago Plan; 6. Where the Street Goes, the Suits Follow: Coalition Politics, 1985-1988; 7. Latinos for Dinkins in 1989: The Coalition's Complicated Victory.