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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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- Additional Authors
- 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
- 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