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Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 (American History and Culture)

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Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention)

The Mexican Revolution used to be a defining moment within the history of race relations, impacting both Mexican and African Americans. For black Westerners, 1910–1920 didn’t represent the clear-cut promise of populist power, but a reordering of the complex social hierarchy which had, because the nineteenth century, granted them greater freedom within the borderlands than in the remainder of the USA.

Despite its lasting significance, the story of black Americans along the Mexican border has been sorely underreported within 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 state-of-the-art studies and oral histories, Horne chronicles the political currents which created and then undermined the Mexican border as a relative secure 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 crucial 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 used to be in the long run 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 along the Mexican border.

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