John D. Marquez

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

Marc Notes: Includes index.; African American and Latina/o relations in America. Review Quotes: The contemporary "postracial" United States Marquez explores in Black-Brown Solidarity doesn't appear to crave critique at all, no matter how much progress might be gained from it. Nevertheless, Marquez provides a timely critique in this thorough investigation of histories of violent oppression, internalized colonization, multiracial coalitions and activism, and constructed identities.--Anne Mai Yee Jansen, University of North Carolina at Asheville"Aztlan" (01/01/2014) Review Quotes: Black-Brown Solidarity provokes the reader to rethink traditional perspectives about race, ethnicity, class, gender and justice as they relate to research, theory and political activism.--David E. Barlow, Fayetteville State University"Ethnic and Racial Studies" (10/21/2014) Review Quotes: The contemporary ?postracial? United States Márquez explores in Black-Brown Solidarity doesn?t appear to crave critique at all, no matter how much progress might be gained from it. Nevertheless, Márquez provides a timely critique in this thorough investigation of histories of violent oppression, internalized colonization, multiracial coalitions and activism, and constructed identities.--Anne Mai Yee Jansen, University of North Carolina at Asheville"Aztlan" (01/01/2014) Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hybrid Subjectivities -- Chapter 1. Foundational Blackness and the Racial State of Expendability -- Chapter 2. Black Gold and Brown Bodies: Early Baytown -- Chapter 3. Subjectivities, Chopped and Screwed: Neoliberalism and Its Aftermath -- Chapter 4. Rodney King en EspaNol: Baytown's Activist Awakening -- Conclusion: Moral Witnesses and Mother 'Hoods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Houston is the largest city in the Gulf South, a region sometimes referred to as the ?black belt? because of its sizeable African American population. Yet, over the last thirty years, Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority in Houston, which is surpassed only by Los Angeles and New York in the number of Latino residents. Examining the history and effects of this phenomenon, Black-Brown Solidarity describes the outcomes of unexpected coalitions that have formed between the rapidly growing Latino populations and the long-held black enclaves in the region. Together, minority residents have put the spotlight on prominent Old South issues such as racial profiling and police brutality. Expressions of solidarity, John D. Márquez argues, have manifested themselves in expressive forms such as hip-hop music, youth gang cultural traits, and the storytelling of ordinary residents in working-class communities. Contrary to a growing discourse regarding black-brown conflict across the United States, the blurring of racial boundaries reflects broader arguments regarding hybrid cultures that unsettle the orders established by centuries-old colonial formations. Accentuating what the author defines as a racial state of expendability?the lynchpin of vigilante violence and police brutality?the new hybridization has resulted in shared wariness of a linked fate. Black-Brown Solidarity also explores the ways in which the significance of African American history in the South has influenced the structures through which Latinos have endured and responded to expendability. Mining data from historical archives, oral histories, legal documents, popular media, and other sources, this work is a major contribution to urban studies, ethnic studies, and critical race theory.