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

Frederick Opie

Published by Columbia University Press 2014

Upsetting the Apple Cart

Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office

Frederick Opie

In the series Columbia History of Urban Life

https://doi.org/10.7312/opie14940

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About this book

An exciting new history of the activists, protestors, politicians, and even recipes that changed New York City.

Author / Editor information

Frederick Douglass Opie is a professor of history and foodways at Babson College. He is the author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America and Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882–1923, and the editor of the history and food blog www.foodasalens.com.

Reviews

Miguel "Mickey" Melendez, author of We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords:
Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of American working-class history and race relations. Frederick Douglass Opie's narrative delineates how black and Latino coalitions supported by organized labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging.

Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, editor of CENTRO Journal:
Frederick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the study of the mid- to late-twentieth-century history of New York City. His book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow account of the various attempts by African Americans and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
A Note on Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Journeys Black and Latino Relations, 1930–1970 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Upsetting the Apple Cart Black and Puerto Rican Hospital Workers, 1959–1962 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Developing Their Minds Without Losing Their Souls Black and Latino Student Coalition Building, 1965–1969 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. Young Turks Progressive Activists and Organizations, 1970–1985 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. The Chicago Plan Coalition Politics, 1982–1984 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
6. Where the Street Goes, the Suits Follow Coalition Politics, 1985–1988 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7. Latinos for Dinkins The Coalition’s Complicated Victory, 1989 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 28
- Other: <B>B&W Photos: </B>28,

eBook

Published: December 2, 2014
ISBN: 9780231520355