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Power to the Poor
Gordon Keith Mantler
其他書名
Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
出版UNC Press Books, 2013
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Social HistoryPolitical Science / Political Process / Political AdvocacySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / CulturalSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American StudiesSocial Science / Poverty & HomelessnessSocial Science / Black Studies (Global)Social Science / Race & Ethnic RelationsSocial Science / Activism & Social Justice
ISBN08078385199780807838518
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5RRS9aGqyMEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 interdependent relationship between racial identity and political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between the nation's two largest minority groups.
Drawing on oral histories, archives, periodicals, and FBI surveillance files, Mantler paints a rich portrait of the campaign and the larger antipoverty work from which it emerged, including the labor activism of Cesar Chavez, opposition of Black and Chicano Power to state violence in Chicago and Denver, and advocacy for Mexican American land-grant rights in New Mexico. Ultimately, Mantler challenges readers to rethink the multiracial history of the long civil rights movement and the difficulty of sustaining political coalitions.