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Title: Conflict, Consensus, and Coalition: Economic and Workforce Development Strategies for African-Americans and Latinos

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Any work toward racial equity in America willneed to include strengthening the blackLatino coalition.While there are political and social tensions between these groups, much of the underlying issue involves real and perceived perceptions of economic competition, particularly the notion that immigrant Latinos undercut African American wages. We note that there is some evidence that immigrants pull down incomes of US-born unskilled workersboth black and Latino. We argue, however, that highly restrictive immigration policy will have minimal effects and erode collective political power; a superior alternative is working together to reduce high school dropout rates, raise the minimum wage, reintegrate exoffenders, rigorously enforce antidiscrimination law, promotecomprehensive immigration reform, and pursuecommunity development. Such an analysis is gainingground in grassroots efforts to build trust and forge policy coalitions between Latinos and African Americans.

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Authors: Carter, Vanessa; Pastor, Manuel

Periodical (Full): Race and Social Problems

Issue: 3

Volume: 1

Pages: 143-156

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States