Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles

Resource Information

The work Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles

Statement of responsibility

Janet L. Abu-lughod

Creator

• Abu-Lughod, Janet L

Subject

• African Americans -- Social conditions
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Chicago <Ill.>
• History
• Los Angeles <Calif.>
• New York <NY>
• Noirs américains -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle
• Race relations
• 1900-1999
• Race riots -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Rassenunruhen
• United States
• United States -- Race relations
• Émeutes raciales -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
• États-Unis -- Relations raciales
• Race riots

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

"This 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 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." "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"--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.896/073

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6477

LC item number

.A38 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography