The Los Angeles riots : lessons for the urban future

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The Los Angeles riots : lessons for the urban future

edited by Mark Baldassare

(Urban policy challenges)

Westview Press, 1994

  • : pbk

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ISBN 9780813323916

Description

The Los Angeles riots in the spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in 20th-century urban America. This collection of original essays addresses three questions: what were the causes of the riots, what actually took place, and what were the consequences?

Table of Contents

  • A riot of colour - the demographic setting, Peter A. Morrison and Ira S. Lowry
  • Los Angeles politics, Raphael J. Sonenshine
  • the Rodney King beating verdicts, Hiroshi Fukuai et al
  • racial attitudes, Lawrence D. Bobo et al
  • a profile of arrests, Joan Petersilia and Allan Abrahamse
  • property damage and collective behaviour, Kathleen J. Tierney
  • Black-Korean conflict, Regina Freer
  • multi-racial community coalition building, James A. Regalado
  • the riot in perspective, David Sears.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813323923

Description

The Los Angeles riots in the spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in 20th-century urban America. This collection of original essays addresses three questions: what were the causes of the riots, what actually took place and what were the consequences?

Table of Contents

  • A riot of colour - the demographic setting, Peter A. Morrison and Ira S. Lowry
  • Los Angeles politics, Raphael J. Sonenshine
  • the Rodney King beating verdicts, Hiroshi Fukuai et al
  • racial attitudes, Lawrence D. Bobo et al
  • a profile of arrests, Joan Petersilia and Allan Abrahamse
  • property damage and collective behaviour, Kathleen J. Tierney
  • Black-Korean conflict, Regina Freer
  • multi-racial community coalition building, James A. Regalado
  • the riot in perspective, David Sears.

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