Why African Americans Do Not Rebel? How Hierarchic Integration Prevents Rebellion

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ID11045857
AuthorsSener Akturk (0000-0002-5897-6714, Koç University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume51
Issue4
Pages959-963
Publication date2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2021.96
OpenAlexW4225130306
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

Why African Americans do not rebel? Why is there no armed insurrection of African Americans across the USA, especially in cities and states where they make up almost half of the population? In many parts of the world, ethnic, racial, and religious groups that are much smaller in size, much less disadvantaged socioeconomically and politically, and with relatively fewer historical grievances than African Americans, launched armed insurrections that lasted for decades. The quiescence of African Americans is a momentous puzzle if one subscribes to grievance-based theories of violent ethnic insurgencies (e.g., Gurr 1970). There are more than 40 million African Americans in the USA, which makes them a more populous ethnic group or a potential nation than any Eastern European nation in the European Union. Yet, approximately 40 million African Americans, despite their high level of collective consciousness and multifaceted grievances, did not produce as much armed insurgency as less than three million Basques in Spain have, to expand a comparison Manuel Vogt (4) briefly alludes to. What accounts for this dramatic difference

Development economics · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Grievance · Insurgency · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Political Conflict and Governance · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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