When Whites Riot

Author : Sheila Smith McKoy
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299173937

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When Whites Riot by Sheila Smith McKoy Pdf

In a bold work that cuts across racial, ethnic, cultural, and national boundaries, Sheila Smith McKoy reveals how race colors the idea of violence in the United States and in South Africa—two countries inevitably and inextricably linked by the central role of skin color in personal and national identity. Although race riots are usually seen as black events in both the United States and South Africa, they have played a significant role in shaping the concept of whiteness and white power in both nations. This emerges clearly from Smith McKoy's examination of four riots that demonstrate the relationship between the two nations and the apartheid practices that have historically defined them: North Carolina's Wilmington Race Riot of 1898; the Soweto Uprising of 1976; the Los Angeles Rebellion in 1992; and the pre-election riot in Mmabatho, Bhoputhatswana in 1994. Pursuing these events through narratives, media reports, and film, Smith McKoy shows how white racial violence has been disguised by race riots in the political and power structures of both the United States and South Africa. The first transnational study to probe the abiding inclination to "blacken" riots, When Whites Riot unravels the connection between racial violence—both the white and the "raced"—in the United States and South Africa, as well as the social dynamics that this connection sustains.

Author : David F. Krugler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061798

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1919, The Year of Racial Violence by David F. Krugler Pdf

Krugler recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I.

Author : A. K. Thompson
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849350501

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Black Bloc, White Riot by A. K. Thompson Pdf

Are you taking over, or are you taking orders? Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards? White riot—I wanna riot. White riot—a riot of my own. —The Clash, "White Riot" Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalization generation is ready to reflect on a decade of organizing that changed the face of mass action around the globe. Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits the struggles against globalization in Canada and the United States at the turn of the century, and he explores the connection between political violence and the white middle class. Equal parts sociological study and activist handbook, Black Bloc, White Riot engages with the key debates that arose in the anti-globalization movement over the course of the past decade: direct or mass action? Summit-hopping or local organizing? Pacifism or diversity of tactics? Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and practical investigations, Thompson outlines the effect of the anti-globalization movement on the white, middle-class kids who were swept up in it, and he considers how and why violence must once again become a central category of activist politics. AK Thompson is a writer and activist living and working in Toronto, Canada. Currently completing his PhD in sociology at York University, Thompson teaches social theory and serves on the editorial committee of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. His publications include Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (Fernwood Publishing, 2006).

Author : Stephen Duncombe,Maxwell Tremblay
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781844676880

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White Riot by Stephen Duncombe,Maxwell Tremblay Pdf

From the Clash to Los Crudos, skinheads to afro-punks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been traced in a comprehensive way. White Riot is the definitive study of the subject, collecting first-person writing, lyrics, letters to zines, and analyses of punk history from across the globe. This book brings together writing from leading critics such as Greil Marcus and Dick Hebdige, personal reflections from punk pioneers such as Jimmy Pursey, Darryl Jenifer and Mimi Nguyen, and reports on punk scenes from Toronto to Jakarta.

Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0618340769

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Riot and Remembrance by James S. Hirsch Pdf

"A buried part of history comes to light in this informative account of the Black Wall Street Massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921"--

Author : Cameron McWhirter
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429972932

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Red Summer by Cameron McWhirter Pdf

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost. Blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before. Red Summer is the first narrative history written about this epic encounter. Focusing on the worst riots and lynchings—including those in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charleston, Omaha and Knoxville—Cameron McWhirter chronicles the mayhem, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society forty years later.

Author : J. Paul Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0137501900

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Race Riots in Black and White by J. Paul Mitchell Pdf

Author : William M. Tuttle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065867

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Race Riot by William M. Tuttle Pdf

Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.

Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226824864

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In the Shadow of Slavery by Leslie M. Harris Pdf

A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.

Author : Jacqueline Jenkinson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800855328

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Black 1919 by Jacqueline Jenkinson Pdf

The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919 were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North America during and in the wake of the First World War. During the riots, crowds of white working-class people targeted black workers, their families and black-owned businesses and property. One of the chief sources of violent confrontation in the run-down port areas was the ‘colour’ bar implemented by the sailors’ trades unions campaigning to keep black, Arab and Asian sailors off British ships in a time of increasing job competition. Black 1919 sets out the economic and social causes of the riots and their impact on Britain’s relationship with its empire and its colonial subjects. The riots are also considered within the wider context of rioting elsewhere on the fringes of the Atlantic world as black people came in increased numbers into urban and metropolitan settings where they competed with working-class white people for jobs and housing during and after the First World War. The book details the events of the port riots in Britain, with chapters devoted to assessing the motivations and make-up of the rioting crowds, examining police procedures during the riots, considering the court cases that followed, and looking at the longer-term consequences for the black British workers and their families. Black 1919 is a stark and timely reminder of the violent racist conflict that emerged after the First World War and the shockwaves that reverberated around the Empire.

Author : Nick Lowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Neo-Nazism
ISBN : 1908479795

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White Riot by Nick Lowles Pdf

A shocking investigation of the ruthless men behind Europe's most violent neo-Nazi gang and their campaign of terror on Britain's streets. Combat 18 was formed in 1991 and for the next decade it was involved in football hooliganism, gun running to Loyalist paramilitaries, numerous street clashes with left-wing protesters, firebombings and, ultimately, murder. Now completely revised and updated to expose the gang's ongoing links with nazi organisation across Europe, White Riot is a riveting investigation into the dangers of extremist thuggery.

Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780544416901

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The Chicago Race Riots by Carl Sandburg Pdf

This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919. In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago’s public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out that would last for days, claim thirty-four lives, and burn down several houses in the city’s “black-belt.” A young reporter for the Chicago Daily News, Carl Sandburg was assigned to cover the story. His series of articles went well beyond a chronicle of the violence of the moment. They explored the complex and incendiary social, economic, and political tensions that finally ignited that summer. This volume of Sandburg’s articles includes an introduction by Walter Lipmann and a foreword by Ralph McGill.

Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207590

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Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters by Victoria W. Wolcott Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked at white-only parks. But too often white mobs attacked those who dared to transgress racial norms. In Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters, Victoria W. Wolcott tells the story of this battle for access to leisure space in cities all over the United States. Contradicting the nostalgic image of urban leisure venues as democratic spaces, Wolcott reveals that racial segregation was crucial to their appeal. Parks, pools, and playgrounds offered city dwellers room to exercise, relax, and escape urban cares. These gathering spots also gave young people the opportunity to mingle, flirt, and dance. As cities grew more diverse, these social forms of fun prompted white insistence on racially exclusive recreation. Wolcott shows how black activists and ordinary people fought such infringements on their right to access public leisure. In the face of violence and intimidation, they swam at white-only beaches, boycotted discriminatory roller rinks, and picketed Jim Crow amusement parks. When African Americans demanded inclusive public recreational facilities, white consumers abandoned those places. Many parks closed or privatized within a decade of desegregation. Wolcott's book tracks the decline of the urban amusement park and the simultaneous rise of the suburban theme park, reframing these shifts within the civil rights context. Filled with detailed accounts and powerful insights, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters brings to light overlooked aspects of conflicts over public accommodations. This eloquent history demonstrates the significance of leisure in American race relations.

Author : Claire Hartfield
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780544785137

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A Few Red Drops by Claire Hartfield Pdf

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.

Author : Jan Voogd
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1433100673

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Race Riots & Resistance by Jan Voogd Pdf

Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any particularity of cause, and in doing so calls into question many longstanding beliefs about racial violence. The book goes on to portray the riots as a phenomenon, documenting the number of incidents, describing the events in detail, and analyzing the patterns that emerge from looking at the riots collectively. Finally and significantly, Race Riots and Resistance argues that the response to the riots marked an early stage of what came to be known as the Civil Rights Movement.