Description
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.
Trade ReviewThe contemporary “postracial” United States Márquez explores in
Black-Brown Solidarity doesn’t appear to crave critique at all, no matter how much progress might be gained from it. Nevertheless, Márquez provides a timely critique in this thorough investigation of histories of violent oppression, internalized colonization, multiracial coalitions and activism, and constructed identities. * Aztlan *
This book enters the annals of important scholarship, making significant contributions to the literature. * Choice *
Black-Brown Solidarity provokes the reader to rethink traditional perspectives about race, ethnicity, class, gender and justice as they relate to research, theory and political activism. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
An imaginative, challenging, and intellectually stimulating contribution to the subjects of race, class, cultural hybridity, activism, systematic racial oppression, and the demographic and cultural future of America—all in Baytown, Texas. * East Texas Historical Journal *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Hybrid Subjectivities
- 1. Foundational Blackness and the Racial State of Expendability
- 2. Black Gold and Brown Bodies: Early Baytown
- 3. Subjectivities, Chopped and Screwed: Neoliberalism and Its Aftermath
- 4. Rodney King en Español: Baytown’s Activist Awakening
- Conclusion: Moral Witnesses and Mother 'Hoods
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
