Gordon K. Mantler is a lecturing fellow and associate director in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University, USA.
Mantler offers an impressive examination of an understudied topic:
antipoverty movements.--Journal of American History
Gordon Mantler turns conventional wisdom on its head. . . . An
important, innovative addition to the growing literature on racial
coalitions during the civil rights era.--Law and History Review
Mantler shows the way (the campaign) was a step forward in the
construction of multiracial coalitions, and also as a way to draw
attention to a number of the group's causes.--A New Left Blog, Top
Ten Books of 2013
Mantler tells a much more complex story of multiracial organizing
and coalitions.--Labor Studies Journal
Provides a fresh and persuasive view of the Poor People's
Campaign.--Labour/Le Travail
Skillfully brings together the histories of the African American
and Mexican civil rights movements and shows their development both
regionally and nationally.--New Mexican Historical Review
The often-overlooked partnership between Mexican American and
African American activists of the 1960s receives much-deserved
attention in this important contribution to the history of the
civil rights era. . . . Recommended. All academic
levels/libraries.--Choice
This fascinating and richly researched book offers an important
corrective to assumptions that identity politics and multiracial
coalitions are necessarily mutually exclusive.--American Historical
Review
Well written and significantly researched book that explores
instances where identity politics and multiracial coalitions were
not mutually exclusive. . . . A highly helpful read for those
interested in the historiography of civil rights and identity-based
movements, African American organizing, Mexican American activism,
poverty, economic justice, and, most importantly, coalition
politics.--H-Net Reviews
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