Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles

by Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Book Overview

American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the larger, underlying causes of contentious race relations have remained the same, the lethality, intensity, and outcomes of these urban rebellions have varied widely. What accounts for these differences? And what lessons can be learned that might reduce the destructive effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195328752
• ISBN13: 9780195328752
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"