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Introduction / Mark Baldassare -- A riot of color : the demographic setting / Peter A. Morrison and Ira S. Lowry -- Los Angeles coalition politics / Raphael J. Sonenshein -- The Rodney King beating verdicts / Hiroshi Fukurai, Richard Krooth, and Edgar W. Butler -- Public opinion before and after a spring of discontent / Lawrence Bobo ... [et al.] -- A profile of those arrested / Joan Petersilia and Allan Abrahamse -- Property damage and violence : a collective behavior analysis / Kathleen J. Tierney -- Black-Korean conflict / Regina Freer -- Community coalition-building / James A. Regalado -- Urban rioting in Los Angeles : a comparison of 1965 with 1992 / David O. Sears

Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- World Map -- Chapter 1 Historical Background on the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 1. Overview of the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 2. President Johnson Explains Why He Is Sending Troops into Detroit -- 3. Congress Struggles to Respond to Urban Rioting -- 4. Police Terrorize Citizens in the Algiers Motel -- 5. The Victims of the Detroit Riots -- Chapter 2 Controversies Surrounding the 1967 Detroit Riots -- 1. The Detroit Riots Show the Need for Elected Urban Black Leadership -- 2. An Elected Urban Black Leadership Did Not Solve Racial Problems in Detroit -- 3. The Detroit Riots Showed the Need for More Government Programs in Cities -- 4. Government Intervention Caused the Detroit Riots -- 5. Minority Groups Must Revolt Against Oppression -- 6. Black Revolutionaries Undermine the Cause They Seek to Represent -- 7. The 1967 Riots Led to Detroit's Decline -- 8. The 1967 Riots Did Not Cause Detroit's Decline -- 9. The Detroit Riots Hold Lessons for Understanding the 2011 UK Riots -- Chapter 3 Personal Narratives -- 1. A Journalist Who Lived in the Riot Zone Reports on Her Experiences -- 2. A Resident of the Detroit Suburbs Remembers the Riots -- 3. An Educator Recalls the 1967 Detroit Riots in the Summer After Her High School Graduation -- 4. The Big Bang -- 5. An Author Recalls How the Riots Interrupted Her Wedding Party -- Chronology -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Main description: Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.

While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to what extent the national government responded to the black urban riots, but he also moves toward a theoretical definition of the role of collective violence in a democratic society. In so doing, the author clarifies the utility or disutility of collective violence as a minority group strategy for effecting political change. Using a variety of sources and research techniques, Professor Button evaluates the effects of ghetto violence on public policy from a perspective that ranges from the earliest riots in 1963 to the later riots and their long-term impact through 1972. His use of rigorous empirical evidence to explore policy effects at the federal level fills the gap often left by more impressionistic research limited to case studies at a local level. The author's data indicate that many federal executive officials interpreted the acts of black urban violence in the 1960s as politically purposeful revolts intended to make demands upon those in power. James Button's work poses a serious challenge to those who argue that collective violence is apolitical, counterproductive, and pathological.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

In 2005, the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois provoked three weeks of rioting in French banlieues. Cars were burned, buildings were damaged and young people clashed with the police in unprecedented scenes of violence. The government declared a state of emergency as the riots spread across France. Two years later, the French public were met with familiar images when riots broke out in the Parisian suburb of Villiers-le-Bel. What were the underlying causes of these episodes of extreme violence? What did the riots signify? What do they tell us about French society? This book takes the

A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikeç shows how these revolts are in fact rooted in exclusions and genuine grievances which our democracies are failing to address. In this eye-opening study, he argues that global revolts may be sparked by a particular police or government action but nonetheless are expressions of much longer and deep seated rage accumulated through hardship and injustices that have become routine. Increasingly recognized as an expert on urban unrest, Dikeç examines urban revolts in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey and, in a sweeping and engaging account, makes it clear that change is only possible if we address the failures of democratic systems and rethink the established practices of policing and political decision-making