Vanessa Parlette
University of Toronto

Part  one  of  the  book  sets  the  framework  and context for conceptualizing race and the third world left more specifically. As the most numerically significant minorities during the period of analysis: African   American,   Chicana/o,   and   Japanese American   groups   were   chosen   and   explored relationally  to  consider  how  each  population organized  politically  in  contribution  to  a  broader third world solidarity movement. The Black Panther Party (BPP), El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind (EW) were considered the dominant  organizations  of  the  respective  ethnic groups that pursued a marxist-leninist or maoist agenda  –  otherwise  revolutionary  nationalism –    seeking  freedom  for  people  of  colour  from capitalist oppression under American imperialism. Pulido’s  comparative  method  of  examining  the interrelationships within and between these groups is not only vital to understanding the nuances of collective organizing in general, but more to her concern  is  the  mutually  constitutive  impact  of racial interaction and material realities.