Civil racism : the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion and the crisis of racial burnout /
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- The 1992 Los Angeles crisis
- Part I. Racial civility
- Model family values and sentimentalizing the crisis
- In/civility, with colorblindness and equal treatment for all
- The territorialization of civility, the spatialization of revenge
- Part II. Counterdiscourse of civility
- At the end of tragedy
- The media spectacle of racial disaster
- Epilogue: Lives that matter.