Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze o

It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between bl

Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, the author chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) is regarded as one of the most significant civil rights moments in American history. Historical observers h

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dy