Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
Title | Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Janet L. Abu-Lughod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780199944057 |
Janet Abu-Lughod weaves together detailed narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, political regimes, and economic conditions - not simply an abstract 'race conflict' - all structure the nature and extent of urban rebellions.
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
Title | New York, Chicago, Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Janet L. Abu-Lughod |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816633364 |
New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They are also among the handful of cities on the earth that can be called "global". Janet L. Abu-Lughod's book is the first to compare them in an ambitious in-depth study that takes into account each city's unique history, following their development from their earliest days to their current status as players on the global stage.
Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
Title | Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles PDF eBook |
Author | Janet L. Abu-Lughod |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2007-09-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
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American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the larger, underlying causes of contentious race relations have remained the same, the lethality, intensity, and outcomes of these urban rebellions have varied widely. What accounts for these differences? And what lessons can be learned that might reduce the destructive effects of riots and move race relations forward? This impressive, meticulously detailed study is the first attempt to compare six major race riots that occurred in the three largest American urban areas during the course of the twentieth century: in Chicago in 1919 and 1968; in New York in 1935/1943 and 1964; and in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992. Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles weaves together detailed narratives of each riot, placing them in their changing historical contexts and showing how urban space, political regimes, and economic conditions--not simply an abstract "race conflict"--have structured the nature and extent of urban rebellions. Building on her previous groundbreaking comparative history of these three cities, Janet Abu-Lughod draws upon archival research, primary sources, case studies, and personal observations to reconstruct events--especially for the 1964 Harlem-Bedford Stuyvesant uprising and Chicago's 1968 riots where no documented studies are available. By focusing on the similarities and differences in each city, identifying the unique and persisting issues, and evaluating the ways political leaders, law enforcement, and the local political culture have either defused or exacerbated urban violence, this book points the way toward alleviating long-standing ethnic and racial tensions. A masterful analysis from a renowned urbanist, Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles offers a deeper understanding of past--and future--urban race relations while emphasizing that until persistent racial and economic inequalities are meaningfully resolved, the tensions leading to racial violence will continue to exist in America's cities and betray our professed democratic values.
Police Power and Race Riots
Title | Police Power and Race Riots PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Lisa Schneider |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2014-07-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0812209869 |
Three weeks after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a New York City police officer shot and killed a fifteen-year-old black youth, inciting the first of almost a decade of black and Latino riots throughout the United States. In October 2005, French police chased three black and Arab teenagers into an electrical substation outside Paris, culminating in the fatal electrocution of two of them. Fires blazed in Parisian suburbs and housing projects throughout France for three consecutive weeks. Cathy Lisa Schneider explores the political, legal, and economic conditions that led to violent confrontations in neighborhoods on opposite sides of the Atlantic half a century apart. Police Power and Race Riots traces the history of urban upheaval in New York and greater Paris, focusing on the interaction between police and minority youth. Schneider shows that riots erupted when elites activated racial boundaries, police engaged in racialized violence, and racial minorities lacked alternative avenues of redress. She also demonstrates how local activists who cut their teeth on the American race riots painstakingly constructed social movement organizations with standard nonviolent repertoires for dealing with police violence. These efforts, along with the opening of access to courts of law for ethnic and racial minorities, have made riots a far less common response to police violence in the United States today. Rich in historical and ethnographic detail, Police Power and Race Riots offers a compelling account of the processes that fan the flames of urban unrest and the dynamics that subsequently quell the fires.
The City, Revisited
Title | The City, Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis R. Judd |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0816665753 |
Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.
L.A. City Limits
Title | L.A. City Limits PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Sides |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2004-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520939868 |
In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass—embodying both the best and worst of what urban America offered black migrants from the South—is the story told for the first time in this history of modern black Los Angeles. A clear-eyed and compelling look at black struggles for equality in L.A.'s neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces from the Great Depression to our day, L.A. City Limits critically refocuses the ongoing debate about the origins of America's racial and urban crisis. Challenging previous analysts' near-exclusive focus on northern "rust-belt" cities devastated by de-industrialization, Josh Sides asserts that the cities to which black southerners migrated profoundly affected how they fared. He shows how L.A.'s diverse racial composition, dispersive geography, and dynamic postwar economy often created opportunities—and limits—quite different from those encountered by blacks in the urban North.
The Chicago race riots
Title | The Chicago race riots PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 79 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 5877912305 |