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Author:

Itagaki, Lynn Mie, 1974- author.

Title:

Civil racism : the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion and the crisis of racial burnout / Lynn Mie Itagaki.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 315 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--History--20th century.
Riots--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Protest movements--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
African Americans--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
Minorities--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Social conditions--20th century.
Racism--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Civil society--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Courtesy--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Burn out (Psychology)--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Racism--history.
Riots--history.
African Americans--history.
Social Discrimination--history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The 1992 Los Angeles crisis -- Part I. Racial civility -- Model family values and sentimentalizing the crisis -- In/civility, with colorblindness and equal treatment for all -- The territorialization of civility, the spatialization of revenge -- Part II. Counterdiscourse of civility -- At the end of tragedy -- The media spectacle of racial disaster -- Epilogue: Lives that matter.

ISBN:

0816699216
9780816699216
0816699208
9780816699209

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926105810

LCCN:

2015022462

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)