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

by Sonia Song Lee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469629801
• ISBN13: 9781469629803
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"