The struggle in Black and brown African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era (University of Nebraska Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Brian D. Behnken -- Not similar enough: Mexican American and African American civil rights struggles in the 1940s / Lisa Y. Ramos -- The movement in the mirror: civil rights and the causes of Black-brown disunity in Texas -- Brian D. Behnken -- Complicating the beloved community: the student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Farm Workers Association / Lauren Araiza -- The Neighborhood Adult Participation Project: Black-brown strife in the war on poverty in Los Angeles / Robert Bauman -- "Mexican versus negro approaches" to the war on poverty: Black-brown competition and the Office of Economic Opportunity in Texas / William Clayson -- Cesar and Martin, March '68 / Jorge Mariscal -- Black, brown, and poor: civil rights and the making of the Chicano movement / Gordon Mantler -- Brown-eyed soul: popular music and cultural politics in Los Angeles / Luis Alvarez and Daniel Widener -- Raising a neighborhood: informal networks between African American and Mexican American women in South Central Los Angeles / Abigail Rosas -- A new day in Babylon: African American and Mexican American relations at the dawn of the millennium / Matthew C. Whitaker