Bibliography

BLACK-BROWN COALITION BUILDING: TENSIONS AND POSSIBILITIES

Bacon, D. (2006). Looking for Common Ground. Color Lines Magazine 9(1). Available: http://www.arc.org/C_Lines/CLArchive/story9_1_01.html

Excerpt: “Racial division is a powerful political weapon as well, helping to maintain a conservative Republican majority in Congress and the White House. By the same token, for working communities, overcoming racial division creates new possibilities for winning political power. In the early 1980s a Black/Latino alliance defeated the Chicago political machine and elected Harold Washington mayor. In the spring of 2005 the same strategy elected Antonio Villaraigosa mayor of Los Angeles, where division between Blacks and Latinos was used to keep conservatives in power for decades. The rebuilding of Biloxi, Gulfport and New Orleans can forge a similar political coalition on the Gulf Coast, too. But to accomplish that, working class communities will have to reject the use of immigration as a new dividing line to keep them apart.”

Banks, A. (2006). The Price of the Ticket. Applied Research Center. Available: http://www.arc.org/content/view/432/1/

This article frames the current immigration debate within a broader social and racial justice context, while simultaneously calling for greater alliances between African-Americans and immigrants. The author suggests broadening the immigration debate to “look critically at our lived experiences,” and effectively work together to “dismantle” the structural racism which creates barriers to opportunity for communities of color, immigrant and non-immigrant alike.

Betancur, J. & D.C. Gills. (2000). The Collaborative City: Opportunities and Challenges for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. Cities. New York: Garland.

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner...