Ethnic Peace In The American City

Author : Edward Taehan Chang,Jeannette Diaz-Veizades
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814715840

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The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Nearly half of the businesses destroyed were Korean American owned, and nearly half of the people arrested were Latino. In the aftermath of the unrest, Los Angeles, with its extremely diverse population, emerged as a particularly useful site in which to examine race relations. Ethnic Peace in the American City documents the nature of contemporary inter-ethnic relations in the United States by describing the economic, political, and psychological dynamics of race relations in inner-city Los Angeles. Drawing from local as well as international examples, the authors present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing. Moving beyond the stereotyped focus on negative interactions between minority groups such as Korean-owned businesses and the African American community, and countering the white-black or bi-racial paradigms of American race relations, the authors explore practical means by which ethnically fragmented neighborhoods nationwide can work together to begin to address their common concerns before tensions become explosive.

Author : Edward Taehan Chang,Jeannette Diaz-Veizades
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814715833

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Ethnic Peace in the American City by Edward Taehan Chang,Jeannette Diaz-Veizades Pdf

Ethnic Peace in the American City documents the nature of contemporary inter-ethnic relations in the United States by describing the economic, political, and psychological dynamics of race relations in inner-city Los Angeles.

Author : Elin Lilja Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Aliens
ISBN : UCAL:$B665917

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We Americans by Elin Lilja Anderson Pdf

Author : S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982636

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Neither Enemies nor Friends by S. Oboler,A. Dzidzienyo Pdf

In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S.

Author : Stanley Lieberson
Publisher : [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Assimilation (Sociology).
ISBN : UCAL:B3866779

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Ethnic Patterns in American Cities by Stanley Lieberson Pdf

Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0759104808

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Remapping Asian American History by Sucheng Chan Pdf

Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively, the essays in this volume challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Jerome H. Schiele
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412971034

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Social Welfare Policy by Jerome H. Schiele Pdf

This book examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies in the United States have had on ethnic minorities.

Author : Dr Nicolas Kenny,Dr Rebecca Madgin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472434791

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Cities Beyond Borders by Dr Nicolas Kenny,Dr Rebecca Madgin Pdf

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, Cities Beyond Borders explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another.

Author : Andrew Aoki,Okiyoshi Takeda
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745634463

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Asian American Politics by Andrew Aoki,Okiyoshi Takeda Pdf

An introduction to the study of Asian American participation in US politics. It covers historical and cultural context, political behaviour and attitudes, interest groups and parties, elected officials, and public policies that have an important impact on Asian Americans.

Author : Brenda Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199944583

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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins by Brenda Stevenson Pdf

Helicopters patrolled low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident. In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992. An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.

Author : Rachel Buff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814799925

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Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship by Rachel Buff Pdf

Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.

Author : N. O. Kura,Tatiana Shohov
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110152878

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American Cities by N. O. Kura,Tatiana Shohov Pdf

For nonfiction books alphabetically listed on eight US cities: Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and Miami, annotations consist mainly of the publication data, table of contents, Library of Congress classification, and Dewey class number. The books on Baltimore span the typical range of 1880-1999. Perhaps v.1 contains an introduction explaining the authors' purpose, backgrounds, and city selection criteria. Indexed by author and title. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Daniel Byman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801868041

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Keeping the Peace by Daniel Byman Pdf

What strategies can a government use to end violent ethnic conflicts in the long term? Under what conditions do these strategies work best? Daniel Byman examines how government policies can affect the recurrence of violent ethnic conflict.

Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351307512

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Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective by Georgia A. Persons Pdf

Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. Nonetheless, there are disturbing signs of a growing awareness of ethnic differences in all parts of the world the United States included and a concomitant rise in ethnic-based conflicts, many of them extraordinarily violent in nature. Fear, resentment, intoler-ance, and mistreatment of the "other" abound in world news accounts. Not only does this phenomenon pose an interesting juxtaposition to the concept of the emergent glo-bal village, but its emergence in the post-cold war era internationally and the post-civil rights era in the United States raises significant and compelling questions. Why are such conflicts occurring now? How do analysts explain these developments? The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyze manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexi-ties of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Com-parative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, his-torians, and sociologists.

Author : john a. powell,Mac A. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015082698427

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Race and Coalition by john a. powell,Mac A. Stewart Pdf

Race and Coalition is volume 1, number 2 of the journal Race/Ethnicity. It reflects continuing attention by scholars and advocates to the theoretical and practical features of coalition building. Contributors engage topics that include the challenges and opportunities racially marginalized groups face in trying to work together, the mobilization of transnational networks in multiracial organizing, the simultaneous use and critique of "white privilege," multiracial organizing against the rights of other marginalized populations, and the unintended effects of coalition building.