ISBN:
1351534491
,
9781351534499
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
illustrations
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Riots
;
African Americans History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
African Americans
;
Race relations
;
Riots
;
History
;
United States Race relations
;
United States
Abstract:
"No topic has been discussed at greater length or with more vigor than the racial confrontations of the 1960s. Events of these years left behind hundreds dead; thousands injured and arrested, property damage beyond toll, and a population both outraged and conscience stricken. Researchers have offered a variety of explanations for this largely urban violence. Although many Americans reacted as if the violence was a new phenomenon, it was not. Racial Violence in the United States places the events of the 1960s into historical perspective. The book includes accounts of racial violence from different periods in American history, showing these disturbing events in their historical context and providing suggestive analyses of their social, psychological, and political causes and implications. Grimshaw includes reports and studies of racial violence from the slave insurrections of the seventeenth century to urban disturbances of the 1960s. The result is more than a descriptive record. Its contents not only demonstrate the historical nature of the problem but also provide a review of major theoretical points of view. The volume defines patterns in past and present disturbances, isolates empirical generalizations, and samples the substantial body of literature that has attempted to explain this ultimate form ofsocial conflict. It includes selections on the characteristics of rioters, on the ecology of riots, and on the role of law in urban violence, as well as theoretical interpretations developed by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and other observers. The resulting volume will help interested readers better understand the violence that accompanied the attempts of black Americans to gain for themselves full equality."--Provided by publisher
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Chapter INTRODUCTION --chapter PART The --chapter 1 LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE --Popular fears of the --chapter Lawlessness and Violence in America and Their Special Manifestations in Changing Negro-White Relationships --and violent nation. Indeed, race riots and --chapter 2 THE PERIOD OF SLAVE INSURRECTIONS AND RESISTANCE 1640-1861 --The publication of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner in and the subsequent negative response to it by ten black minor literary stir. There was sharp --chapter AmericanNegroSlaveRevolts * --chapter 3 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 1861-1877 --During the Civil War and the decade that followed it, three new in racial categories Toward the end of the War, black troops (with white officers) not all of these troops --chapter New York ' sBloodiestWeek --chapter 1863 Albon P. Man, fr --The New York draft riots of July, 1863, had their ongm largely in a Upon emancipation, they believed, great numbers of Negroes underbid them in the Northern labor --chapter 4THESECONDRECONSTRUCTIONANDTHEBEGINNINGSOFTHEGREATMIGRATION1878 -1 914 --chapter The AtlantaMassacre --chapter 5 WORLD WAR I AND POSTWAR BOOM AND RACIAL READJUSTMENT 1915-1929 --in the United end of the first World War and during the months im- In extent and distribution of violence the period that of the past five years. Two of the more --chapter East St. Louis Riots: Report of the Special Committee --Authorized by Congress to Investigate the East St. Louis Riots under House resolution No. 128 for the on May 28 and July 2, 1917, reports that as a result of unlawful --chapter Lynching in Omaha 700 Federal Troops Quiet Omaha; Mayor Recovering; Mob Rule Defined by Most of the Population --chapter 9 Killed in Fight with Arkansas Posse --Tappen of Helena, and seven negroes are known to be dead at Elaine, near Helena, --chapter 6 INTERWAR AND DEPRESSION 1930-1941 --during the interwar years, particularly in the Great Depression. There was social but it occurred primarily among labor groups as working men on the accommodative structure. There were fewer than had been the case in earlier decades; by the the end of the --chapter TheHarlemDisturbancesof1935and1943 : Deviant Cases? --chapter 7 World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954 --During World War II there were a number of small racial disorders but only one large-scale race riot. This was the Detroit riot of 1943, a that compared in magnitude both to the violence of the War I period and to that which has occurred in a number of --chapter THE DETROIT RIOT A Short Lesson in Historiography Factual Report of the Committee to Investigate the Riot Occurring in Detroit on June 21, 1943 --chapter Il and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 147 --than mess attendants in the Navy. The Negroes are Urban League put it in a pamphlet on The Negro and National --chapter B. POSTWARDEVELOPMENTS WhatHappenedatColumbia --chapter. wTennessee Trial --chapter II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment.
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Hunting knife. When questioned why he had taken the knife, the boy that he had it --chapter II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment --On June 8, Harvey Clark, Jr., a twenty-nine-year-old Negro war vet- had rented at 6139 19th Court, Cicero. According to Mr. Clark, in his official complaint to the Federal authorities, the follow- --chapter 8 Massive Assault upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties, 1955-1969 --chapter --in some way connected --chapter The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Newark --The last outburst in Atlanta occurred on Tuesday night, June 20. That Until 4 speaker after speaker from the Negro intent to turn over 150 acres in the and dental --part PART 11 Patterns in American Racial Violence --chapter 9 Patterns i n American Racial Violence --out of the violent events previously described. For Chapter 10 I have in American racial violence. In the first paper I have attempted on patterns of violence in this country by com- --chapter Factors Contributing to Color Violence in the United States and Britain --in a I 954 monograph, examined patterns of rela- Indian Negroes in England and other English groups in an attempt to see whether a general theory of intergroup relatiom on American experience could illuminate that of Britain (Rich- --chapter THE PROFILE OF THE COUNTERRIOTER --The typical counterrioter, who risked injury and arrest to walk the He was, for example, far more likely than either that this country is worth defend- in a major war. His actions and his attitudes reflected his sub- --chapter WhoRiots? AStudy Participationinthe1967 Riots * --chapter Black Response to Contemporary U rh an Violence: A Brief Note on the Sociology of Poll Interpretation --White Americans, particularly politicians and policy makers, have un- in how black Americans --chapter PART --chapter 10 Empirical Generalizations --chapter MinorStudies Aggression : Correlations LynchingswithEconomicIndices --chapter The Precipitants and Underlying Conditions of Race Riots --The immediate preClp1tants and underlying conditions of race riots in during the past half century are the subject of this paper. Using both --chapter Ted Gurr Urban Disorder: Perspectives from the Comparative Study of Civil Strife --that the sources and dynamics of urban disorder in the United out the world. American Negro rioters and their white antagonists seem and rioting Indonesian students: most of them /Riots Stanley Lieberson and Amold R. Silverman 354 --chapter high-on this index the United States ranks 36th among all --in a community in which by con- The potential for turmoil has existed since the founding of the it has exploded in this decade is suggested by --chapter 11 Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological --chapter 3 Views UrbanViolence : CivilDisturbance, RacialRevolt, ClassAssault --chapter Race and Minority Riots-A Study in the Typology of Violence --an exaggeration of actuality. Certain aspects of an in accordance with certain hypotheses. In this study we will attempt to delineate a pattern of social action in /Racial Revolt, Class Assault Alien D. Grimshaw 385 --chapter SomePsychologicalFactorsinNegroRaceHatredandinAnti -N egroRiots --chapter Group Violence : A Preliminary Study oftheAttitudinalPatternof and HarlemRiot --chapter Isolation, Powerlessness, and Violence: A Study --Attitudes and Participation in the Watts Riot it is no longer possible to describe the Urban that we --chapter Negro-White Relations in the Urban North: Two Areas of High Conflict Potential --In recent years students of race relations have witnessed a shift in public in Negro-white relations. Dramatic events which followed the and the more recent /Tension, and Social Violence Allen D. Grimshaw 446 --part PART IV The Changing Meaning of --chapter 12 THE CHANGING MEANING OF --in which of interpretations have been suggested by careful scholars number of different disciplines. Yet, as I suggested in the Preface, --chapter Changing Patterns of Racial Violence in the United States --had experience, either direct or more remote, and could find solutions --chapter --in the consequences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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