ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the African American-Latino coalition experience under the mayoralty of Harold Washington in Chicago. 1 This work is critically important in light of the continuing deterioration of socioeconomic conditions for Blacks and Latinos in U.S. cities and the need for renewed efforts to reverse this trend. Intensification of interracial conflict likely will lead to further subordination and marginalization of these two groups. Cooperation, on the contrary, can provide new avenues for empowerment and improvement.
