Building a Latino civil rights movement, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the pursuit of racial justice in New York City, Sonia Song-Ha Lee
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Building a Latino civil rights movement, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the pursuit of racial justice in New York City, Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Building a Latino civil rights movement
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Series statement
Justice, power, and politics
Sub title
Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the pursuit of racial justice in New York City
Summary
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 Ricans 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
Target audience
adult
Classification
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Subject
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans + Relations with Hispanic Americans
- Puerto Ricans + Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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- Contributor1
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- Subject10
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans + Relations with Hispanic Americans
- Puerto Ricans + Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
- Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans + Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Content1