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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Rodney King; Rodney King |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Gooding-Williams |
| ISBN: | 0415907349 9780415907347 0415907357 9780415907354 |
| OCLC Number: | 27264705 |
| Description: | viii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Endangered/endangering : schematic racism and white paranoia / Judith Butler -- Terror austerity race gender excess theater / Ruth Wilson Gilmore -- Scene- not heard / Houston A. Baker -- The rules of the game / Patricia J. Williams -- Reel time/real justice / Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gary Peller -- Race, capitalism, and the antidemocracy / Cedric J. Robinson -- Accumulation as evisceration : urban rebellion and the new growth dynamics / Rhonda M. Williams -- The Los Angeles "race riot" and contemporary U.S. politics / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Anatomy of a rebellion : a political-economic analysis / Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson, Jr., and Walter C. Farrell, Jr. -- Uprising and repression in L.A. : an interview with Mike Davis by the Covertaction information bulletin -- "Look, a negro!" / Robert Gooding-Williams -- The new enclosures : racism in the normalized community / Thomas L. Dumm -- Korean Americans vs. African Americans : conflict and construction / Sumi K. Cho -- Home is where the han is : a Korean-American perspective on the Los Angeles upheavals / Elaine H. Kim -- Reflections on the Rodney King verdict and the paradoxes of the black response / Jerry G. Watts -- Two nations- both black / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Learning to talk of race / Cornel West. |
| Responsibility: | edited and with an introduction by Robert Gooding-Williams. |
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". . . very impressive . . . These works are not about race and urban uprising. They are about all of us, not the American Dream but the American Real." -- The SanDiego Review"The book Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising offers a timely reminder that the beating of Rodney King, the outcome of the Simi Valley trial of the police officers involved in it, and the subsequent uprisings in response to the verdict are best understood in social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors demonstrate that a critical analysis of popular representations of these events can illuminate the larger subject of race relations in American society. The book suggests that a multidisciplanary approach is needed to appreciate fully the vast and interlocking dimensions of the problem." -- Gail Lee Dubrow, Journal of the AmericanPlanning Association Read more...
