No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities

by Patrick D. Joyce

Book Overview

Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. No Fire Next Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternately, leave them free to erupt violently. Few encounters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488907
• ISBN13: 9780801488900
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher