Author: Terry Ann Knopf
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: riots, race, rumors
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2006-05-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412805570
ISBN-13: 9781412805575

Are race-related rumors rooted in the personality traits of the individual? Are they a kind of "improvised news" for a community? Do they come and go at random or form definite, recognizable patterns? What role do the news media play in spreading rumors? These and other questions are treated in this classic study, now available in paperback, of how and why rumors emerge in connection with racial disorders. Included is an examination and critique of the three major models of rumor formation: the psychological approach, emphasizing the emotional needs and drives of the individual; the functional

Author: David Carter
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: revolution, gay, sparked, riots, stonewall
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0312342691
ISBN-13: 9780312342692

"Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston GlobeIn 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves. Now, based on hundreds of intervie

Author: Joel T. Headley
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: york, new, riots
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $14.50
ISBN-10: 1605206547
ISBN-13: 9781605206547

One of the most popular writers of his day-and one most unjustly forgotten-J.T. Headley thrilled audiences with his tales of real-life history. This 1873 work is an enthralling collection of accounts of urban upheaval in one of the U.S.’s most historically vital cities: New York. Here, Headley offers us highly readable and informative reports on: • the negro riots of 1712-1741 • the Stamp Act riot of 1765 • the doctors’ riot of 1788 • the abolition riots 1834-5 • the flour riot of 1837 • the draft riots of 1863 • and more. Anyone interested in the histo

Authors:Nancy Abelmann, John Lie,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: angeles, riots, los, americans, dreams, korean, blue
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-09-15
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674077059
ISBN-13: 9780674077058

No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. The situation of Los Angeles&

Author: Mauricio Mazón
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: mexican, american, monographs, annihilation, symbolic, suit, riots, psychology, zoot
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1988
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0292798032
ISBN-13: 9780292798038

"In the nascent field of Chicano history psychohistorical studies are not abundant. Thus Mazón makes an immense contribution to the study of the Mexican American." --Arnoldo de León, American Historical Review Los Angeles, the summer of 1943. For ten days in June, Anglo servicemen and civilians clashed in the streets of the city with young Mexican Americans whose fingertip coats and pegged, draped trousers announced their rebellion. At their height, the riots involved several thousand men and women, fighting with fists, rocks, sticks, and sometimes knives. In the end none were killed, fe

Author: Iver Bernstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: society, politics, civil, war, american, significance, york, city, draft, riots, new
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1991-10-10
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195071301
ISBN-13: 9780195071306

For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history. In this vividly written book, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the f

Authors:Walter C. Rucker Jr., James N. Upto,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: american, milestones, african, history, greenwood, volume, race, riots, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0313333017
ISBN-13: 9780313333019