Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

Books on Black/Brown Solidarity

Featured image: Cesar Chavez with Ken Msemaji, at the African Liberation March honoring Malcolm X’s birthday.

Crystal S. Anderson: Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production.

Lauren Araiza: To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers.

Vivek Bald: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America.

Brian D. Behnken:  Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas.

Brian D. Behnken, (editor): The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era.  

Brian D. Behnken (editor): Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States.

Shana Bernstein: Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.

Grace Lee Boggs: Living For Change: An Autobiography.

Grace Lee Boggs: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.

Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine, & Lyman Paine: Conversations in Maine.

James Boggs: Pages from a Black Radical’s Notebook: A James Boggs Reader.

Allyson P. Brantley: Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism.

Matthew M. Briones: Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America.

Anani Dzidzienyo & Suzanne Oboler: Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos.  

Darrel Enck-Wanzer: The Young Lords: A Reader.

Johanna Fernández: The Young Lords: A Radical History.

Neil Foley: The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture.

Neil Foley: Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity.

Diane C. Fujino: Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama.

Diane C. Fujino: Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life.

Gaye Theresa Johnson: Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles.

Fred Ho (Author) & Diane C. Fujino (Editor): Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader.

Fred Ho & Bill V. Mullen: Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans.

Gerald Horne: Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920.

James Jennings: Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism.

Lynn Mie Itagaki: Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout.

Claire Jean Kim: Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City.

Yuri Kochiyama: Passing it On.

Max Krochmal: Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era.

Josh Kun & Laura Pulido: Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition.

Scott Kurashige: The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black And Japanese Americans In The Making Of Multiethnic Los Angeles.

Sonia Song-Ha Lee: Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City.

Marc James Léger & David Tomas: Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas.

Karen Leonard: Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans.

Gordon K. Mantler: Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974.

John D. Márquez: Black-Brown Solidarity: Racial Politics in the New Gulf South.

Cid Martinez: The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles.

Miguel Melendez: We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords.

Iris Morales: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976.

Bill Mullen: Afro Orientalism.

Frederick Opie: Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office.

Paul Ortiz: An African American and Latinx History of the United States.

Django Paris, Rae Paris, Timothy San Pedro, & Alayna Eagle Shield: Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square.

Vijay Prashad: Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity.

Laura Pulido:  Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles.

Craig Scharlin & Lilia Villanueva: Philip Vera Cruz: A Personal History of Filipino Immigrants and the Farmworkers Movement.

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano: The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation.

Stephen M. Ward: In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs.

Rychetta Watkins: Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities.

Julie M. Weise: Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910.

Jakobi Williams: From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago.

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