Living as Equals: How Three White Communities Struggled to Make Interracial Connections During the Civil Rights Era (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826515971)

Using interviews with leaders and participants, as well as historical archives, the author documents three interracial sites where white Americans put themselves into unprecedented relationships with African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. In teen summer camps in the New York City and Los Angeles areas, students from largely segregated schools worked and played together; in Washington, DC, families fought blockbusting and white flight to build an integrated neighborhood; and in San Antonio, white community activists joined in coalition with Mexican American groups to advocate for power in a city government monopolized by Anglos. Women often took the lead in organizations that were upsetting patterns of men's protective authority at the same time as white people's racial dominance.

Author: Phyllis Palmer
ISBN-10: 0826515975
ISBN-13: 9780826515971
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2008
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.87h x 6.05w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/11/2008 pg. 16
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 61
Choice 06/01/2009