Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King / Edition 1

Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King / Edition 1

by Dennis E. Gale
ISBN-10:
0761900950
ISBN-13:
9780761900955
Pub. Date:
05/20/1996
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
0761900950
ISBN-13:
9780761900955
Pub. Date:
05/20/1996
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King / Edition 1

Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King / Edition 1

by Dennis E. Gale

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Overview

Mob violence is a phenomenon that has plagued the United States at various times throughout the twentieth century. The events that occurred in Los Angeles in 1992 shed new light on the circumstances that bring about the violence, and the political context in which federal policy responds to the seemingly intractable social and economic problems which underlie the violence. In Understanding Urban Unrest Dennis E Gale compares the federal programmes that have been tested since 1966; makes observations about the probable political response to urban interracial violence and poverty in the future, and concludes that place-based patchwork policies are not effective; and argues that only fundamental changes in the economic structuring of th


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761900955
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 05/20/1996
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Los Angeles '92 Was Nothing New
Civil Rights and Uncivil Riots, 1964 through 1966
Reverend King, The Urban Poor and an Epidemic of Rioting, 1966
Riot-Driven Public Policy, 1966 through 1968
Model Cities Program Plays Out, 1969 through 1975
From Reverend King to Rodney King
Responding to Urban Interracial Mob Violence in the 1990s
Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence and Federal Reaction
The Problem and Political Contexts
Urban Poverty, Interracial Mob Violence and Federal Reaction
The Policy Context

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