A Social History of Radical Violence
No topic has been discussed at greater length or with more vigor than the racial confrontations of the 1960s. Events of these years left behind hundreds dead; thousands injured and arrested, property damage beyond toll, and a population both outraged and conscience stricken. Researchers have offered a variety of explanations for this largely urban violence. Although many Americans reacted as if the violence was a new phenomenon, it was not. Racial Violence in the United States places the events of the 1960s into historical perspective. The book includes accounts of racial violence from different periods in American history, showing these disturbing events in their historical context and providing suggestive analyses of their social, psychological, and political causes and implications.

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A Social History of Radical Violence
No topic has been discussed at greater length or with more vigor than the racial confrontations of the 1960s. Events of these years left behind hundreds dead; thousands injured and arrested, property damage beyond toll, and a population both outraged and conscience stricken. Researchers have offered a variety of explanations for this largely urban violence. Although many Americans reacted as if the violence was a new phenomenon, it was not. Racial Violence in the United States places the events of the 1960s into historical perspective. The book includes accounts of racial violence from different periods in American history, showing these disturbing events in their historical context and providing suggestive analyses of their social, psychological, and political causes and implications.

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A Social History of Radical Violence

A Social History of Radical Violence

A Social History of Radical Violence

A Social History of Radical Violence

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Overview

No topic has been discussed at greater length or with more vigor than the racial confrontations of the 1960s. Events of these years left behind hundreds dead; thousands injured and arrested, property damage beyond toll, and a population both outraged and conscience stricken. Researchers have offered a variety of explanations for this largely urban violence. Although many Americans reacted as if the violence was a new phenomenon, it was not. Racial Violence in the United States places the events of the 1960s into historical perspective. The book includes accounts of racial violence from different periods in American history, showing these disturbing events in their historical context and providing suggestive analyses of their social, psychological, and political causes and implications.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780202362632
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication date: 08/15/2009
Pages: 574
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Allen D. Grimshaw is professor emeritus of sociology at Indiana University. His teaching focused on social conflict as well as on language and its use in social context. He is the author of Conflict Talk: Socio-linguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations, Collegial Discourse—Professional Conversation among Peers, andLanguage as Social Resource.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; I: The History of Negro-White Violence in America; 1: Lawlessness and Violence; 2: The Period of Slave Insurrections and Resistance 1640-1861; 3: Civil war and Reconstruction 1861-1877; 4: The Second Reconstruction and the Beginnings of the Great Migration 1878-1914; 5: World war i and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1915-1929; 6: Interwar and Depression 1930-1941; 7: World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954; 8: Massive Assault Upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties 1955-1969; II: Patterns in American Racial Violence; 9: Patterns in American Racial Violence; III: Causation:Some Theoretical and Empirical Notions; 10: Empirical Generalizations; 11: Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological; IV: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence; 12: The Changing Meaning of “Racial” Violence
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