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Zusatztext Abu-Lughod should be commended for her scholarly contribution and for drawing attention to these pivotal events as important signs or indicators of tectonic shifts (pp. 255, 260) taking place in the racial and political landscape of American cities...As Abu-Lughod convincingly argues, the future of urban areas, and the likelihood of future riots, will indeed depend on how American society chooses to deal with the enduring issues of racial and spatial inequality.. Informationen zum Autor Janet L. Abu-Lughod is professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She is the author of numerous books, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities and From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side. In 1999 she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award of the Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of cities. Klappentext Janet Abu-Lughod for the first time weaves together detailed narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, political regimes, and economic conditions--not simply an abstract "race conflict"--all structure the nature and extent of urban rebellions. New York's race riots, for instance, have been shorter, more confined, less destructive and less lethal, than those in Chicago and Los Angeles. Abu-Lughod attributes these differences to social diversity, lack of segregation, and a political system that responds to grievances. This book compares six major race riots that occurred in the three largest American metropolitan centers over the course of the twentieth century: in Chicago in 1919 and in 1968; in New York in 1935/1943 and in 1964; and in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1992. Abu-Lughod draws upon archival research, primary and secondary sources, and field work to reconstruct events--especially for the 1964 Harlem riot and Chicago's 1968 riots where no single study currently exists. By focusing on the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization of African Americans and successful common trends in fostering racial harmony in each city, this work points the way towards alleviating existing and potentially mounting ethnic and racial tensions brought on by globally influenced changes in the economy and demographics of major American cities. Sadly, the author concludes that outbreaks of racial violence may again occur in major urban centers, and foresees a "tectonic" shift from white/black violence to ethnic competition and conflict between poor blacks and incoming Latinos, especially along shared social and physical boundaries. Zusammenfassung This book weaves together historical narratives of major riots with the changing contexts in which they have occurred to show how urban space, politics, and economic conditions all structure the form and virulence of urban rebellions in the 60s. Abu-Lughod compares and reconstructs the events of six major race riots in Chicago, New York, and LA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements List of Maps, List of Tables 1: An Overview of Race Riots in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles Part I - Chicago's Struggles to Control Space 2: The Bloody Riot of 1919 and its Consequences 3: The Black Uprising after King's Assassination Part II - New York's Struggles for Equity and Social Justice 4: The Harlem Revolts of 1935 and 1943 5: The Harlem - Bedford Stuyvesant Uprising of 1964 Part III - Los Angeles' Futile Uprisings 6: The Watts Rebellion of 1965 7: Riot Redux: South Central, 1992 8: Explaining Differences, Predicting Convergence, A Look to the Future Bibiliographies Index ...
