Civil Rights in Black and Brown : : Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas /

Civil Rights in Black and Brown : : Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas / / ed. by Todd Moye, Max Krochmal.

Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American activists combated the twin caste systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow. These insur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bobadilla, Eladio,
Bynum, Katherine,
Dulaney, W. Marvin,
Enríquez, Sandra I.,
Gurrola, Moisés Acuña,
Howard, Jasmin C.,
Krochmal, Max,
May, Meredith,
Moye, J. Todd,
Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie,
Robles, David,
Rodriguez, Samantha M.,
Sinta, Vinicio,
Wall, James B.,
Zapata, Joel,
HerausgeberIn:
Krochmal, Max,
Moye, Todd,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (469 p.) :; 44 b&w photos, 3 b&w illus., 1 b&w map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Introduction. Lone Star Civil Rights: Histories, Memories, and Legacies
  • PART I. Violence and Resistance: African Americans in East Texas
  • 1. Ignored News and Forgotten History: The 1963 Prairie View Student Movement
  • 2. “Plumb Chaos”: Segregation and Integration in Deep East Texas
  • 3. “Something Was Lost”: Segregation, Integration, and Black Memory in the Golden Triangle
  • 4. Texas Time: Racial Violence, Place Making, and Remembering as Resistance in Montgomery County
  • PART II. Survival and Self-Determination: Chicano/a Struggles in South and West Texas
  • 5. The South-by- Southwest Borderlands’ Chicana/o Uprising: The Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight against Police Brutality in West Texas
  • 6. The Long Shadow of Héctor P. García in Corpus Christi
  • 7. “It Was Us against Us”: The Pharr Police Riot of 1971 and the People’s Uprising against El Jefe Político
  • 8. The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout
  • 9. “A Totality of Our Well-Being”: The Creation and Evolution of the Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe in South El Paso
  • PART III. Coalitions and Control: Black and Brown Liberation Struggles in Metropolitan Texas
  • 10. Contesting White Supremacy in Tarrant County
  • 11. Civil Rights in the “City of Hate”: Black and Brown Organizing against Police Brutality in Dallas
  • 12. Self-Determined Educational Spaces: Forging Race and Gender Power in Houston
  • 13. From Police Brutality to the “United Peoples Party”: San Antonio’s Hybrid SNCC Chapter, the Chicano/a Movement, and Political Change
  • 14. “You Either Support Democracy or You Don’t”: Structural Racism, Segregation, and the Struggle to Bring Single-Member Districts to Austin
  • PART IV. Inside the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project
  • 15. Recovering, Interpreting, and Disseminating the Hidden Histories of Civil Rights in Texas
  • Appendix: Selected Interview Transcripts
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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