Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement : Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City /

Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Sonia Song-Ha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Puerto Ricans > Social conditions.
Puerto Ricans > Politics and government.
Puerto Ricans > Civil rights.
Ethnic relations.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Relations with Hispanic Americans.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Noirs americains > Relations avec les Americains d'origine latino-americaine.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Portoricains > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Portoricains > Droits > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
Puerto Ricans > New York (State) > New York > Politics and government > 20th century.
Puerto Ricans > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations.
New York (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.
"In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unified as "people of color" or irreconcilably at odds as two competing minorities. Lee demonstrates instead that Puerto Rican and African Americans in New York City shaped the complex and shifting meanings of "Puerto Rican-ness" and "blackness" through political activism. African American and Puerto Rican New Yorkers came to see themselves as minorities joined in the civil rights struggle, the War on Poverty, and the Black Power movement - until white backlash and internal class divisions helped break the coalition, remaking "Hispanicity" as an ethnic identity that was mutually exclusive from "blackness."Drawing on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Lee vividly portrays this crucial chapter in postwar New York, revealing the permeability of boundaries between African American and Puerto Rican communities."--The jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469615547

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