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

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Additional authors
  1. McConahay, John B.
Description
  1. xii, 244 p. illus.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554
  2. 1965
  3. African Americans > Los Angeles
  4. Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
  5. Los Angeles (Calif.) > History
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 225-233.
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