The 1960s Black Riots Revisited
City Level Explanations of Their Severity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2274155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregg Lee Carter (0000-0002-6130-4767, Bryant University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-228 |
| Publication date | 1986-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1986.tb00084.x |
| OpenAlex | W2049356349 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper involves a city-level investigation of the 1964-1971 black rioting. It attempts to explain inter-city variations in the severity of the rioting with inter-city variations in black population size, political structure, black-white income inequality, and regional location. The research charts two new areas of inquiry: (1) It is the first study to use data on the entire rioting period (1964-71). (2) Most previous investigators have concentrated on linear hypotheses, e.g., most have posited and tested for a linear relationship between riot activity and black-white economic inequality. However, a review of theoretic commentary on rebellion reveals that some potential relationships should be hypothesized as curvilinear; more specifically, plausible hypotheses can be developed that rebellious activity is highest where economic inequality and political responsiveness are moderate. Such hypotheses are developed and tested. The overall pattern of results supported the posited curvilinear relationships
Criminology · Curvilinear coordinates · Demographic economics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · White (mutation) · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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The Effects of the Neighborhood Legal Services Program on Riots and the Wealth of African Americans
Violent Protest and Heterogeneous Diffusion Processes
The Coevolution Of Social Movements
The "Revolution of Rising Expectations," Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s
An evaluation of the Federal Legal Services Program
Racial Rioting in the 1960S
The opposing forces diffusion model
Whatever can go wrong will
Hispanic rioting during the civil rights era
Anger, legacies of violence, and group conflict
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Collective Violence and the Problem of Group Size in Aggregate-Level Studies
The Language of the Unheard
Black Empowerment and White Mobilization
The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities
The “Revolution of Rising Expectations,” Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s
Race, Labor Markets, and Social Disorder in Twentieth-Century America
Highways and segregation
Large-Scale Urban Riots and Residential Segregation
Civil rights protests and election outcomes
A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss
Modeling Geographic Behavior in Riotous Crowds
In the Narrows of the 1960s U.S. Black Rioting
All the Rioting That's Fit to Print
Agenda Seeding
Local Police Force Size and the Severity of the 1960s Black Rioting
Why Targets Matter
From shared grievances to collective action
Size Matters
Black Attitudes and the 1960s Black Riots
The Diffusion of Collective Violence
Structure and influence in the spread of collective violence
History, place, and racial self-representation in 21st century America
Social conflict and social movements.
Negroes and the New Southern Politics (Harbrace Paperbacks Library)
Inequality and Discontent
The Causes of Racial Disturbances
The Causes of Racial Disorders
The Causes of Racial Disturbances
Structural Characteristics of Cities and the Severity of Racial Disorders
Problems and Prospects of the Negro Movement
The Conditions of Racial Violence in American Cities
The Conditions of Protest Behavior in American Cities
Racial Violence and Socioeconomic Changes among Blacks in the United States
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2025 (40) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |