Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City
by
Sonia Song-Ha Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s. Previous work has tended to see blacks and Latinos as either naturally unified...