Patterns of Conflict Preceding the 1964 Riots

Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6284359
AutoresDaniel J Monti (University of Missouri and Center for Metropolitan Studies, autor correspondente)
Ano1979
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas41-69
Data de publicação1979-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002200277902300103
OpenAlexW2136047577
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas43

Data on racial controversies involving New York's black and Puerto Rican population between 1960 and July 1964 were obtained from an analysis of New York Times articles. These data deal with “events” or exchanges between representatives of the city's minority populations and public officials or nonminority actors. An analysis of these exchanges for the four and one-half year period preceding the July riots reveals that violence followed unsuccessful efforts by minority actors to alter the behavior of nonminority and government actors toward them through peaceful and nonviolent strategies. This pattern of conflicts conforms to the general idea that mass violence by aggrieved groups or classes is more likely to occur when: (1) conventional channels for solving problems fail to resolve differences between groups; (2) nonviolent strategies fail to evoke positive responses from the targets of grievances; and/or (3) they have few strategies to choose among in order to make their case before the public. It also offers support for the “solidarity theories” of collective violence which link the genesis of violence to everyday political life, and specifies a connection between the frequency and intensity of conflictive actions

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