Collaborative City

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage and concentration in inner cities). The essays address two major issues: experiences and bases for collaboration and contention between the two groups; and the impact of urban policies and initiatives of recent decades on Blacks and Latinos in central cities. 1. Chapter 1: Introduction 2. Chapter 2: The Restructuring of Urban Relations: Recent Challenges and Dilemmas for African Americans and Latinos in U.S. Cities 3. Chapter 3: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York: Cycles and Circles of Discrimination 4. Chapter 4: The African American and Latino Coalition Experience in Chicago Under Mayor Harold Washington 5. Chapter 5: Race and Class Coalitions in the South 6. Chapter 6: Displaced Labor Migrants or the Underclass: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia's Economy 7. Chapter 7: Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Black-Latino Cooperation and Competition in the U.S. Labor Market Cedric Herring 8. Chapter 8: Can't We All Just Get Along? Interethnic Organization for Economic Development 9. Chapter 9: Building Networks to Tackle Global Restructuring: The Environmental and Economic Justice Movement 10. Chapter 10: Black and Latino Coalitions: Means to Greater Budget Resources for Their Communities? 11. Chapter 11: Community Economic Development and the Latino Experience 12. Chapter 12: Understanding the Future: Toward a Strategy for Black and Latino Survival and Liberation in the Twenty?€“First Century 13. Chapter 13: The Possibilities of Collaboration and the Challenges of Contention: Concluding Remarks