The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics (Hardcover)

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Social critic Hutchinson (The Emerging Black GOP Majority) deftly explains the challenges posed by immigration to an African-American audience wary of a Latino threat played up by the media. As the growing Latino electorate gains political favor, Hutchinson observes that the black community is wondering where new immigrants stand nationally on key issues of education, housing, jobs, health care and political empowerment. A backlash has mobilized black protests on amnesty and border enforcement, he adds, while many Latino immigrants, as well as former Mexican president Vicente Fox, have embraced negative stereotypes about African-Americans, causing a bitter schism between the two cultures. Though Hutchinson tends to emphasize the conflicts that have defeated coalition-building and compromise, and some of his opinions are delivered in very broad terms (such as suggesting that Latinos support the Iraq war), this abbreviated book generally invites a fruitful dialogue on the obstacles to unifying black and brown communities. (Oct.)
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"Earl Ofari Hutchinson has proved to be one of the top thinkers and gifted writers of this time. Free of fear, he tackles an issue that all are living with but afraid to talk about."  —Reverend Al Sharpton

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Middle Passage Press (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881032221
• ISBN-13: 978-1881032229
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #342,115 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars blacks and Latinos, November 30, 2007

By	Earl Ofari Hutchinson "Author and Political A... (USA) - See all my reviews

Mr. Hutchinson
from Eduardo Espinosa



I read your book Latino Challenged to Black America and I thought it was well written and a good book, I bought it the first week it came here to Chicago. I wish the book had been longer, never the less the book is good reading for anyone who is interested in the Latino and African-American relations. I believe that the road ahead will be bumpy but now without hope, people just have to raise the children right. Mr. Hutchinson I think a lot of African-Americans see Latino people as a threat to jobs, federal funding, minority set aside contract, jobs etc. which I see is only naturally that the average person may see the little kid on the block that grew up to be bigger and now wants to flex his muscle. I know of Terry Anderson and Hayes they talk about how illegal immigration has hurt black people in Los Angeles but those two dudes have racist attitudes towards Latinos what those two guys need to say is that young people need to stay in school and graduate and lead a good life instead of leading a life of gangs and drugs and maybe you won't have to worry about competing against illegal immigrate workers for those high paying jobs like mowing lawns, dishwashing, and picking grapes in the wine valley. Latinos have change the face of America there is nothing to be worried about. I tell my young relatives t stay in school or learn a trade because we live in a global economy and industry is going to go where the labor is the cheapest.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Real Picture Please?, January 6, 2008

By	Hawaii Howie (USA) - See all my reviews

The author fails to see these are Illegal entries into the U.S., he also fails to see it is a form of slavery. His book is well written, however, realizing his inability to see the above, it read as rhetoric. I was somewhat dis-appointed.