Civil Rights and Beyond

Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of community histories - each with their own distinct historical experiences and activisms - to explore group dynamics, differing strategies and activist moments, and the broader quests of these communities for rights and social justice.The collection is framed around the concept of "e;"e;activism,"e;"e; which most fully encompasses the relationships that blacks and Latinos have enjoyed throughout the twentieth century. Wide ranging and pioneering, Civil Rights and Beyond explores black and Latino/a activism from California to Florida, Chicago to Bakersfield - and a host of other communities and cities - to demonstrate the complicated nature of African American-Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States.Contributors: Brian D. Behnken, Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Alyssa Ribeiro, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, and Jakobi Williams.