Table of Contents:
  • Puerto Ricans, race, and ethnicity in postwar New York City
  • We were walking on egg shells: Puerto Rican and Black workers' political dissent in the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union
  • From social reform to political organizing: building a new consciousness of resistance
  • If you have a Black Numero Uno, let's have a Puerto Rican Numero Dos: building Puerto Rican and Black political power through the war on poverty
  • From racial integration to community control: the struggle for quality education
  • The breaking of a coalition: institutionalizing power and the remaking of a Hispanic identity.