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Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement - (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Sonia Song-Ha Lee (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Sonia Song-Ha Lee is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
  • 352 Pages
  • Social Science, Ethnic Studies
  • Series Name: Justice, Power, and Politics

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About the Book



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



Book Synopsis



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.



Review Quotes




"[A] pathbreaking history of Puerto Rican activism in New York." -- CHOICE

"An important contribution to the emerging scholarship on the long civil rights movement, as well as to more nuanced treatments of the War on Poverty." -- Journal of American History

"Lee shows that working-class communities have the power and potential to come together and challenge the terms of their political affiliations and social circumstances.... She decisively rewrites the history of the decade and reminds us that the so-called black-white binary has been a means of social control rather than ethnographic description." -- Journal of African American History

"Offers a long overdue look at Puerto Ricans' fight for civil rights in mid-century New York City." -- American Historical Review



About the Author



Sonia Song-Ha Lee is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.24 Inches (H) x 6.18 Inches (W) x .97 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.19 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Ethnic Studies
Series Title: Justice, Power, and Politics
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Theme: Hispanic American Studies
Format: Paperback
Author: Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2016
TCIN: 94488749
UPC: 9781469629803
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-6810
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.97 inches length x 6.18 inches width x 9.24 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.19 pounds
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