1. Leith Mullings, “Interrogating Racism: Toward an Antiracist Anthropology,” Annual Review of Anthropology 34 (2005): 667–93, at 667.
2. Ana Aparicio, “Contesting Race and Power: Second-Generation Dominican Youth in the New Gotham,” City and Society 19, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 179–201; Mullings “Interrogating Racism,” 667; Sunaina Maira and Elizabeth Soep, eds., Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); João Costa Vargas, “Black Radical Becoming: The Politics of Identification in Permanent Transformation,” Critical Sociology 32, nos. 2–3 (2006): 475–500.
3. Manning Marable, Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial Future (New York: Basic Civitas Group, 2007); see also Manning Marable, “Building Coalitions Among Communities of Color: Beyond Racial Identity Politics,” in Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism, ed. James Jennings (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004), 29–43.
4. My work to date is heavily focused on organizations and activists in the United States, particularly in the Northeast among activists who identify as Latino, African American, part of the black diaspora, or any combination of these. However, there is a growing body of work that looks at youth activists around the United States and throughout the black diaspora. Scholars such as Vijay Prashad are examining centuries of historical connections and coalitions between the Asian and African diasporas, while Nitasha Sharma studies contemporary manifestations of these collaborations among Asian American and African American youth. Vijay Prasad, Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002); Nitasha Sharma, Claiming Space, Making Race: Desi Hip Hop and South/Asian Black Alliances (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009).
5. Ana Aparicio, Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006).