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Book SynopsisThe Mexican Revolution impacted both Mexican and African Americans. Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, a host of cutting-edge studies and oral histories, Horne chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative safe haven for African Americans.
Trade ReviewA masterful, elegant work of history...As the African Diaspora grows in importance, and as the surging Latino presence arrests the attention of the nation, Horne puts the relationship between blacks and Mexicans on center stage...A must read for all interested in the bold new course of American race-relations. -- Ben Vinson III,Penn State University, author of Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico and Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico
Gerald Horne is one of America's most outstanding and prolific historians. In his latest work, Horne illustrates the extensive involvement of black Americans in Mexico's revolutionary past. Black and Brown provides a powerful and provocative interpretation of the complex connections linking African Americans with Latin American history. Superbly researched and well-crafted, Black and Brown sets a high standard in the writing of modern social history. -- Manning Marable,Professor of Public Affairs, History and African-American Studies and Director, Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia University
This is history plus . . . The road traveled by this expert driver is not an easy straight away but a series of ascending curves, reaching a new mountaintop of understanding. -- Juan Gómez Quiñones,UCLA
Thought-provoking * WTBF,Troy, Alabama *
Black and Brown is a book that shows the sides of Jack Johnson and Henry O. Flipper only a serious, politically astute and socially conscious writer and observer like Gerald Horne has the insight to delve into and prompt a reader to truly say 'I didn't know that' about these otherwise popular personalities of their day * Caribbean Life *
