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Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920. By Gerald Horne. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8147-3667-X. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-8147-3667-X.)
In July 1920, when the renegade pugilist Jack Johnson surrendered to U.S. authorities at the Tijuana border, he ended a long exile in Mexico, a country he described as free from racial prejudice and one where blacks could enjoy the full benefits of citizenship. According to Gerald Horne, this event closed a seminal decade not only for Mexico but for African Americans. Slightly mistitled, Black and Brown partially examines the historical relationship between the United States' two largest minority groups; more thoroughly, it explores the impact that Mexico's struggle for self-determination had on black Americans' struggle for equality. . . .
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