Gordon Mantler: Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
03/07/2013 7:00 pm
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Thu 3/7 7pm-8pm
Gordon Mantler: Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974
UNC Press $34.95 hc 9780807838518
The Poor People's Campaign of 1968 has long been overshadowed
by the assassination of its architect, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the
political turmoil of that year. In a major reinterpretation of civil rights and
Chicano movement history, Gordon K. Mantler demonstrates how King's unfinished
crusade became the era's most high-profile attempt at multiracial collaboration
and sheds light on the interdependent relationship between racial identity and
political coalition among African Americans and Mexican Americans. Mantler
argues that while the fight against poverty held great potential for
black-brown cooperation, such efforts also exposed the complex dynamics between
the nation's two largest minority groups.
Gordon K. Mantler is a lecturing fellow and associate director in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University.
Location:
- Street:
- 752 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
- Additional:
- Next to Foster's Market & Kitchen
- City:
- Chapel Hill ,
- Province:
- North Carolina
- Postal Code:
- 27514
- Country:
- United States
