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Book Riot After Riot

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  • Author : M. J. Akbar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Riot After Riot written by M. J. Akbar and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers post-1977 period.

Book Riot After Riot

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  • Author : M. J. Akbar
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9788174362827
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Riot After Riot written by M. J. Akbar and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discovers the reasons behind communal and caste violence that have taken place in India after Partition. M.J. Akbar's journalist's eye for the revealing instance as also a historian's sense of the deeper treds, resulting in an illuminating study of the violence on the surface and beneath the land of Gandhi. A timely collection of reports of violence in a land formally pledged to the Mahatma's philosophy of non-violence.

Book Riot

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  • Author : Walter Dean Myers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 1606840002
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Riot written by Walter Dean Myers and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City.

Book Riot  Strike  Riot

Download or read book Riot Strike Riot written by Joshua Clover and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award winning poet Joshua Clover theorises the riot as the form of the coming insurrection Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an “age of riots” as the struggle of people versus state and capital has taken to the streets. Award-winning poet and scholar Joshua Clover offers a new understanding of this present moment and its history. Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class. From early wage demands to recent social justice campaigns pursued through occupations and blockades, Clover connects these protests to the upheavals of a sclerotic economy in a state of moral collapse. Historical events such as the global economic crisis of 1973 and the decline of organized labor, viewed from the perspective of vast social transformations, are the proper context for understanding these eruptions of discontent. As social unrest against an unsustainable order continues to grow, this valuable history will help guide future antagonists in their struggles toward a revolutionary horizon.

Book Prelude to Riot

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  • Author : Paul Jacobs
  • Publisher : New York : Random House
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Prelude to Riot written by Paul Jacobs and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1967 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the condition of the minority poor and their daily relationships with social and governmental institutions based on firsthand observations by the author in Los Angeles, California.

Book The Detroit Riot of 1967

Download or read book The Detroit Riot of 1967 written by Hubert G. Locke and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse—one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century America. Forty-three people were killed, over $50 million in property was destroyed, and the city itself was left in a state of panic and confusion, the scars of which are still present today. Now for the first time in paperback and with a new reflective essay that examines the events a half-century later, The Detroit Riot of 1967 (originally published in 1969) is the story of that terrible experience as told from the perspective of Hubert G. Locke, then administrative aide to Detroit’s police commissioner. The book covers the week between the riot’s outbreak and the aftermath thereof. An hour-by-hour account is given of the looting, arson, and sniping, as well as the problems faced by the police, National Guard, and federal troops who struggled to restore order. Locke goes on to address the situation as outlined by the courts, and the response of the community—including the media, social and religious agencies, and civic and political leadership. Finally, Locke looks at the attempt of white leadership to forge a new alliance with a rising, militant black population; the shifts in political perspectives within the black community itself; and the growing polarization of black and white sentiment in a city that had previously received national recognition as a "model community in race relations." The Detroit Riot of 1967 explores many of the critical questions that confront contemporary urban America and offers observations on the problems of the police system and substantive suggestions on redefining urban law enforcement in American society. Locke argues that Detroit, and every other city in America, is in a race with time—and thus far losing the battle. It has been fifty years since the riot and federal policies are needed now more than ever that will help to protect the future of urban America. All historians, from professional to novice, will find value in this compelling account of a marked moment in American history.

Book Riot After Riot

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  • Author : Akbar M. J.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Riot After Riot written by Akbar M. J. and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insurrection

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  • Author : Dr James Gardner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-08-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book Insurrection written by Dr James Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you wanted to know about the Capitol riot including antecedents, minute-by-minute details, charges, arrests, groups involved, individuals, weapons used, motivation of those people arrested, aftermath, etc. Includes modal profiles of violent offenders, female offenders, and notorious non-violent offenders as well as outliers in each category (e.g., youngest, oldest, smartest). Data is based on nearly 600 arrests as of August 2021. There is a companion book (Insurrection - The Rioters) that has detailed profiles on all the violent offenders and all the female offenders as of April 2021.

Book Riot

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  • Author : Andrew Salkey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Riot written by Andrew Salkey and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Hell Broke Loose

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  • Author : Ann V. Collins
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-05-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book All Hell Broke Loose written by Ann V. Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has a troubling history of violence regarding race. This book explores the emotionally charged conditions and factors that incited the eruption of race riots in America between the Progressive Era and World War II. While racially motivated riot violence certainly existed in the United States both before and after the Progressive Era through World War II, a thorough account of race riots during this particular time span has never been published. All Hell Broke Loose fills a long-neglected gap in the literature by addressing a dark and embarrassing time in our country's history—one that warrants continued study in light of how race relations continue to play an enormous role in the social fabric of our nation. Author Ann V. Collins identifies and evaluates the existing conditions and contributing factors that sparked the race riots during the period spanning the Progressive Era to World War II throughout America. Through the lens of specific riots, Collins provides an overarching analysis of how cultural factors and economic change intersected with political influences to shape human actions—on both individual and group levels.

Book The Riot Within

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  • Author : Rodney King
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2012-05-29
  • ISBN : 0062194623
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Riot Within written by Rodney King and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad's stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse. King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engaged in a high-speed chase with the LAPD, who finally pulled him over. What happened next shocked the nation. A group of officers brutally beat King with their metal batons, Tasered and kicked him into submission—all caught on videotape by a nearby resident. The infamous Rodney King Incident was born when this first instance of citizen surveillance revealed a shocking moment of police brutality, a horrific scene that stunned and riveted the nation via the evening news. Racial tensions long smoldering in L.A. ignited into a firestorm thirteen months later when four white officers were acquitted by a mostly white jury. Los Angeles was engulfed in flames as people rioted in the streets. More than fifty people were dead, hundreds were hospitalized, and countless homes and businesses were destroyed. King's plaintive question, "Can we all just get along?" became a sincere but haunting plea for reconciliation that reflected the heartbreak and despair caused by America's racial discord in the early 1990s. While Rodney King is now an icon, he is by no means an angel. King has had run-ins with the law and continues a lifelong struggle with alcohol addiction. But King refuses to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that was inflicted upon him that night in 1991. While this nation has made strides during those twenty years to heal, so has Rodney King, and his inspiring story can teach us all lessons about forgiveness, redemption, and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation.

Book Riots I Have Known

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  • Author : Ryan Chapman
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster
  • Release : 2020-11-17
  • ISBN : 1501197312
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Riots I Have Known written by Ryan Chapman and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Ryan Chapman’s “gritty, bracing debut” (Esquire) set during a prison riot is “dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious…one of the smartest—and best—novels of the year” (NPR). A largescale riot rages through Westbrook prison in upstate New York, incited by a poem in the house literary journal. Our unnamed narrator, barricaded inside the computer lab, swears he’s blameless—even though, as editor-in-chief, he published the piece in question. As he awaits violent interruption by his many, many enemies, he liveblogs one final Editor’s Letter. Riots I Have Known is his memoir, confession, and act of literary revenge. His tale spans a childhood in Sri Lanka, navigating the postwar black markets and hotel chains; employment as a Park Avenue doorman, serving the widows of the one percent; life in prison, with the silver lining of his beloved McNairy; and his stewardship of The Holding Pen, a “masterpiece of post-penal literature” favored by Brooklynites everywhere. All will be revealed, and everyone will see he’s really a good guy, doing it for the right reasons. “Fitfully funny and murderously wry,” Riots I Have Known is “a frenzied yet wistful monologue from a lover of literature under siege” (Kirkus Reviews).

Book Consolidated Laws of the Colony of British Honduras

Download or read book Consolidated Laws of the Colony of British Honduras written by British Honduras and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When Whites Riot

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  • Author : Sheila Smith McKoy
  • Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
  • Release : 2012-11
  • ISBN : 0299173933
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book When Whites Riot written by Sheila Smith McKoy and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bold work that cuts across racial, ethnic, cultural, and national boundaries, Sheila Smith McKoy reveals how race colors the idea of violence in the United States and in South Africa—two countries inevitably and inextricably linked by the central role of skin color in personal and national identity. Although race riots are usually seen as black events in both the United States and South Africa, they have played a significant role in shaping the concept of whiteness and white power in both nations. This emerges clearly from Smith McKoy's examination of four riots that demonstrate the relationship between the two nations and the apartheid practices that have historically defined them: North Carolina's Wilmington Race Riot of 1898; the Soweto Uprising of 1976; the Los Angeles Rebellion in 1992; and the pre-election riot in Mmabatho, Bhoputhatswana in 1994. Pursuing these events through narratives, media reports, and film, Smith McKoy shows how white racial violence has been disguised by race riots in the political and power structures of both the United States and South Africa. The first transnational study to probe the abiding inclination to "blacken" riots, When Whites Riot unravels the connection between racial violence—both the white and the "raced"—in the United States and South Africa, as well as the social dynamics that this connection sustains.

Book Hearings Before the President s National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot Affected Areas

Download or read book Hearings Before the President s National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot Affected Areas written by President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race Riot

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  • Author : William M. Tuttle
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN : 9780252065866
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Race Riot written by William M. Tuttle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.

Book Start a Riot

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  • Author : Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2022-07-27
  • ISBN : 1496840437
  • Pages : 121 pages

Download or read book Start a Riot written by Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings. Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Henry Dumas challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings. Representations of riots became more pronounced in the 1960s as pivotal leaders shaping Black consciousness, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated. BAM artist-writers sought to override the public's interpretation in their literary exposés that a riot’s disjointed and disorderly methods led to more chaos than reparative justice. Start a Riot! uncovers how BAM artist-writers expose anti-Black racism and, by extension, the United States' inability to compromise with Black America on matters related to citizenship rights, housing (in)security, economic inequality, and education—tenets emphasized during the Black Power Movement. Abdul-Ghani argues that BAM artist-writers did not merely write literature that reflected a spirit of protest; in many cases, they understood their texts, themselves, as acts of protest.