Let's Talk About Race: Black and Latin@ Coalitions
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2011
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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Scholars have long debated why ethnic conflict exists and how biracial/ethnic coalitions can be formed. Most scholars have answered this question through four schools of thought: shared interest, shared ideology, intergroup competition theories and shared commonality. However, much of the scholarship on intergroup relations has focused on a White and Black dichotomy and has ignored possibilities of coalitions of other racial/ethnic groups such as Afro-Americans and Latin@s. In this thesis, I will first review the literature for each of the four schools of thought, while addressing perceptions and stereotypes as the cause of perceived conflict between Latin@s and Afro-Americans. I will argue that shared interests along with the coalition's active role in raising racial consciousness between Afro-Americans and Latin@s, which can be aided by addressing the issues of Afro-Latin@s within the Black and Latin@ communities, is crucial to the creation and success of African American and Latin@ coalitions.