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  • The Multiracial Promise

    Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America

    by Gordon K. Mantler ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Washington’s victory was unlikely not just because America’s second city was one of the nation’s most racially balkanized but also because it came at a time when Ronald Reagan and other political conservatives seemed resurgent. Washington’s initial win and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Power to the Poor

    Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974

    by Gordon K. Mantler ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    The Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King’s unfinished crusade became the era’s most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration and sheds light on the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Civil Rights and Beyond

    African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States

    by Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, Jakobi Williams, Alyssa Ribeiro ...
    Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

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  • The Presumed Alliance

    The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America

    by Nicholás C. Vaca ...
    "A hard and unnerving look at how changing demographics will forever alter our country's dialogue on race." — San Jose Mercury NewsAs Latino and African Americans increasingly live side by side in large urban centers, as well as in suburban clusters, the idealized concept of a "Rainbow Coalition" would suggest that these two disenfranchised groups are natural political allies. Indeed, as the ... Read more

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  • Fighting Their Own Battles

    Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas

    by Brian D. Behnken ...
    Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. In Fighting Their Own Battles, Brian Behnken ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Blue Texas

    The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

    by Max Krochmal ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together ... Read more

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  • One Night in America

    Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity

    by Steven W. Bender ...
    "Courageous." -Ilan Stavans, author of Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez came from opposite sides of the tracks of race and class that still divide Americans. Both optimists, Kennedy and Chavez shared a common vision of equality. They united in the 1960s to crusade for the rights of migrant farm workers. Farm workers faded from public consciousness ... Read more

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  • Freedom Is Not Enough

    The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas

    by William S. Clayson ...
    Led by the Office of Economic Opportunity, Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty reflected the president's belief that, just as the civil rights movement and federal law tore down legalized segregation, progressive government and grassroots activism could eradicate poverty in the United States. Yet few have attempted to evaluate the relationship between the OEO and the freedom struggles of the 1960s. ... Read more

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  • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

    by Jeanne Theoharis ...
    This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. (O Magazine).The civil rights ... Read more

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  • Three Nights In Havana

    Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War World

    by Robert Wright ...
    On January 26, 1976, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau became the first leader of a NATO country to visit Cuba since the crippling 1960 American economic embargo. Accompanied by his wife, Margaret, and baby Michel, Trudeau was greeted in Havana by 250,000 cheering Cubans and a 30-foot poster of himself. “Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!” Trudeau would famously shout at the love-in.In this ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

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