ABSTRACT
This book examines objective and subjective as well as internal and external factors of collaboration and contention between and within the African American and Latino communities and between them and other groups in the urban United States. Most objective factors examined point to the need for and possibility of unity to secure a viable socioeconomic and political future for both communities. Conditions, risks, and prospects, in fact, are so similar that it seems natural for Latinos and Blacks to coalesce. Many external and subjective factors, however, keep them separated and, often, in contention. Although historical and circumstantial developments have facilitated unity, collaboration, however, must be carefully constructed and maintained. Similarities or shared conditions do not create unity by themselves.
