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The politics of violence; the new urban Blacks and the Watts riot [by] David O. Sears [and] John B. McConahay.

Title
The politics of violence; the new urban Blacks and the Watts riot [by] David O. Sears [and] John B. McConahay.
Author
Sears, David O.
Publication
Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1973]

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McConahay, John B.
Description
xii, 244 p. illus.; 24 cm.
Summary
A Wichita boy held captive by the Pueblo Indians longs for a chance to return to his own people as a guide to Coronado's gold-seeking expedition.
Subject
  • Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554
  • 1965
  • African Americans > Los Angeles
  • Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 225-233.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The fires of August -- Who were the rioters? -- A theory of urban rioting -- The view from the ghetto: Black grievances and political discontent -- The new urban Blacks -- Rioting as functional equivalent -- Rioting as random outburst -- The politics of privatism: the local White context -- A confusion of tongues: officials' reactions to the riot -- The public's response: racial polarization -- The riot ideology -- Black identity and political estrangement -- Politics, violence, and the future.
ISBN
0395119278
LCCN
^^^73005247^//r863
OCLC
745837
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library