Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable
Mention)
"Gerald Horne is one of America's most outstanding and prolific
historians. In his latest work, Horne illustrates the extensive
involvement of black Americans in Mexico's revolutionary past.
"Black and Brown" provides a powerful and provocative
interpretation of the complex connections linking African Americans
with Latin American history. Superbly researched and well-crafted,
"Black and Brown" sets a high standard in the writing of modern
social history."
--Manning Marable, Professor of Public Affairs, History and
African-American Studies and Director, Center for Contemporary
Black History at Columbia University
"This is history plus . . . The road traveled by this expert
driver is not an easy straight away but a series of ascending
curves, reaching a new mountaintop of understanding."
--Juan Gomez Quinones, UCLA
"A masterful, elegant work of history...As the African Diaspora
grows in importance, and as the surging Latino presence arrests the
attention of the nation--Horne puts the relationship between blacks
and Mexicans on center stage...A 'must read' for all interested in
the bold new course of American race-relations."
--Ben Vinson III, Penn State University, author of "Flight: The
Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico" and
"Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial
Mexico"
"Thought-provoking" --WTBF, Troy, Alabama
""Black and Brown" is a book that shows the sides of Jack
Johnson and Henry O. Flipper only a serious, politically astute and
socially conscious writer and ovserver like Gerald Horne has the
insight to delve into and prompt areader to truly say 'I didn't
know that' about these otherwise popular personalities of their
day."
--"Caribbean Life"
""Black and Brown" benefits from the author's extensive research
on both sides of the border, and it suceeds in shedding light on a
forgotten corner of American history."
--"Military History"
The Mexican Revolution was a defining moment in the history of
race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For
black Westerners, 1910-1920 did not represent the clear-cut promise
of populist power, but a reordering of the complex social hierarchy
which had, since the nineteenth century, granted them greater
freedom in the borderlands than in the rest of the United
States.
Despite its lasting significance, the story of black Americans
along the Mexican border has been sorely underreported in the
annals of U.S. history. Gerald Horne brings the tale to life in
Black and Brown. Drawing on archives on both sides of the border, a
host of cutting-edge studies and oral histories, Horne chronicles
the political currents which created and then undermined the
Mexican border as a relative safe haven for African Americans. His
account addresses blacks' role as "Indian fighters," the
relationship between African Americans and immigrants, and the U.S.
government's growing fear of black disloyalty, among other
essential concerns of the period: the heavy reliance of the U.S. on
black soldiers along the border placed white supremacy and national
security on a collision course that was ultimately resolved in
favor of the latter.
Mining a forgotten chapter in American history, Black and Brown
offers tremendous insight into the past and future of race
relations alongthe Mexican border.
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