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Fredrick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the mid-to-late 20th century history of New York City. The book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow, account of the various attempts by African American and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions -- Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, and editor of CENTRO Journal

Fredrick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the mid-to-late 20th century history of New York City. The book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow, account of the various attempts by African American and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions -- Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, and editor of CENTRO Journal Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of the American working class history and race relations. Opie's narrative delineates how Black and Latino coalitions supported by organized Labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging. -- Miguel Mickey Melendez, Author We Took the Streets...Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords

Frederick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the study of the mid- to late-twentieth-century history of New York City. His book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow account of the various attempts by African Americans and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions. -- Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, editor of CENTRO Journal Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of American working-class history and race relations. Frederick Douglass Opie's narrative delineates how black and Latino coalitions supported by organized labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging. -- Miguel Mickey Melendez, author of We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords

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Frederick Douglass Opie is a professor of history and foodways at Babson College. He is the author of Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America and Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923, and the editor of the history and food blog www.foodasalens.com.

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