Brian D Behnken
Biographic Data
| ID | 710462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian D Behnken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian D |
| FAMILY NAME | Behnken |
| SIGNATURE | BEHNKEN B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
E duardo C ontreras . Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco
In this fine book, Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco, historian Eduardo Contreras scrutinizes Latino/a history in San Francisco by examining the Latino/a contribution to the city’s political, social, and labor milieu. He does so by untangling a web of complicated and seemingly disjointed histories—from labor rights to the War on Poverty, from LGBTQIA+ rights to progressive labor activism, from feminism and the se…
Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism
Lawrence A. Nixon's name is appended to several of the most noteworthy voting rights cases in American legal history, but scholars have only partially told his story. Will Guzmán attempts to recover the El Paso doctor's life while also adding to the literature on the racial frontier. He asserts that Nixon has much to tell us about “borderlands history, African Americans in the West, and the engagement of the Black professional class in so-called …
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
This book examines how the media—including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction—has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States. Were there damaging racist depictions in Gone with the Wind and children's cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse? How did widely known stereotypes of the Latin lover, t…
James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
Journal Article James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest. Get access James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2013. Pp. xxii, 266. $55.00. Brian D. Behnken Brian D. Behnken Iowa State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community
Journal Article Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community Get access Guadalupe San Miguel. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013. xiv, 240 pp. $40.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau181 Published: 01 June 2014
The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era
The Xaripu Community Across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family
Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. This book explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizat…
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Laura E. Gómez’s Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico. Gómez states that “more than a century-and-a-half ago, a series of events occurred that resulted in the formation of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States” (p. 1). Such a statement invites criticism from Mexican American historians who, like me, were tr…
On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Borderlands history continues to grow in popularity on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Systematic studies of la frontera, from authors as varied as Ramón Gutiérrez, Andrés Reséndez, and David Weber, among others, point to the vitality of the border region as an important site of cultural, social, and physical exchange. Editor Andrew Grant Wood adds On the Border to this growing body of scholarship. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Wood h…
Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the development of black higher education in Texas--which has historically had one of the largest state col…
Count on Me: Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership
Research Article| October 01 2005 "Count on Me": Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership Brian D. Behnken Brian D. Behnken Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 25 (1): 61–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501663 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brian D. Behnken; "Count on Me": Reverend M. L. P…
Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community
Journal Article Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community Get access Guadalupe San Miguel. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013. xiv, 240 pp. $40.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau181 Published: 01 June 2014
Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas
As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), it is important to consider the historical struggles that led to this groundbreaking decision. Four years earlier in Texas, the Sweatt v. Painter decision allowed blacks access to the University of Texas's law school for the first time. Amilcar Shabazz shows that the development of black higher education in Texas--which has historically had one of the largest state col…
Count on Me: Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership
Research Article| October 01 2005 "Count on Me": Reverend M. L. Price of Texas, a Case Study in Civil Rights Leadership Brian D. Behnken Brian D. Behnken Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2005) 25 (1): 61–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501663 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brian D. Behnken; "Count on Me": Reverend M. L. P…
On the Border: Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Borderlands history continues to grow in popularity on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. Systematic studies of la frontera, from authors as varied as Ramón Gutiérrez, Andrés Reséndez, and David Weber, among others, point to the vitality of the border region as an important site of cultural, social, and physical exchange. Editor Andrew Grant Wood adds On the Border to this growing body of scholarship. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Wood h…
Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Laura E. Gómez’s Manifest Destinies offers a new interpretation of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and how that ideology worked to create a Mexican American race in New Mexico. Gómez states that “more than a century-and-a-half ago, a series of events occurred that resulted in the formation of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States” (p. 1). Such a statement invites criticism from Mexican American historians who, like me, were tr…
Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas
Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. This book explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizat…
The Struggle in Black and Brown: African American and Mexican American Relations during the Civil Rights Era
The Xaripu Community Across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family
James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest
Journal Article James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest. Get access James J. Lorence. Palomino: Clinton Jencks and Mexican-American Unionism in the American Southwest. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2013. Pp. xxii, 266. $55.00. Brian D. Behnken Brian D. Behnken Iowa State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community
Journal Article Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community Get access Guadalupe San Miguel. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013. xiv, 240 pp. $40.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Pages 346–347, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau181 Published: 01 June 2014
Racism in American Popular Media: From Aunt Jemima to the Frito Bandito
This book examines how the media—including advertising, motion pictures, cartoons, and popular fiction—has used racist images and stereotypes as marketing tools that malign and debase African Americans, Latinos, American Indians, and Asian Americans in the United States. Were there damaging racist depictions in Gone with the Wind and children's cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Mickey Mouse? How did widely known stereotypes of the Latin lover, t…
Civil Rights and Beyond: African American and Latino/a Activism in the Twentieth-Century United States
Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism
Lawrence A. Nixon's name is appended to several of the most noteworthy voting rights cases in American legal history, but scholars have only partially told his story. Will Guzmán attempts to recover the El Paso doctor's life while also adding to the literature on the racial frontier. He asserts that Nixon has much to tell us about “borderlands history, African Americans in the West, and the engagement of the Black professional class in so-called …
E duardo C ontreras . Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco
In this fine book, Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco, historian Eduardo Contreras scrutinizes Latino/a history in San Francisco by examining the Latino/a contribution to the city’s political, social, and labor milieu. He does so by untangling a web of complicated and seemingly disjointed histories—from labor rights to the War on Poverty, from LGBTQIA+ rights to progressive labor activism, from feminism and the se…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (6 works) · Civil rights (4 works) · 20th century (3 works)