Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles

Bibliographic Data

ID19969749
AuthorsJanet L Abu-Lughod, Janet Abu‐lughod (corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages344
Publication date2007-09-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byNew York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities, Brian J Godfrey, 1999
VenueRace, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195328752.001.0001
OpenAlexW1526796473
Open LibraryOL22761420M
ISBN9780195328752
LanguageEN
Citations received162

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 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. The book 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. The book 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

Criminology · Ethnic group · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · African americans · race relations · Race riots · Riots · Social conditions · united states

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