Riots and Pogroms Contributor(s): Brass, Paul R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814712827 ISBN-13: 9780814712825 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, many Korean-American businesses were looted and burned to the ground. Although nearly half of the looters arrested were Latinos, the media portrayed this aspect of the riots more in terms of the on- going conflicts between Korean-Americans and African- Americans. In another part of the world in 1984, the violence which ensued after the assassination of India's Indira Gandhi was portrayed by officials and state leaders as a spilling over of mass sentiments of grief and anger, a conflict between ethnic groups instead of a pogrom against the Sikhs. Riots and Pogroms presents comparative studies of public violence in the twentieth-century in the United States, Russia, Germany, Israel, and India with a comparative, historical, and analytical introduction by the editor. The focus of the book is on the interpretive process which follows riots and pogroms, rather than on the search for their causes. Its emphasis is on the struggle for control over the meaning of riotous events, for the right to represent them properly. How do political and social forces seek to assign causes and attach labels to riots, attribute motives to rioters and pogromists, and explain why particular groups are selected for violent assaults? To what extent are the state and its agents implicated in those assaults? To what degree does organization and/or spontaneity play a role in these incidents? |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science |
Dewey: 305.8 |
LCCN: 96012916 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.34" W x 8.36" (0.86 lbs) 384 pages |
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Publisher Description: During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, many Korean-American businesses were looted and burned to the ground. Although nearly half of the looters arrested were Latinos, the media portrayed this aspect of the riots more in terms of the on- going conflicts between Korean-Americans and African- Americans. In another part of the world in 1984, the violence which ensued after the assassination of India's Indira Gandhi was portrayed by officials and state leaders as a spilling over of mass sentiments of grief and anger, a conflict between ethnic groups instead of a pogrom against the Sikhs. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brass, Paul R.: - "Paul R. Brass is Professor of Political Science and South Asian Studies at the University of Washington. |