Robert Gooding-Williams (ed.)

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Herausgeber: Gooding-Williams, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

Like so many "news events," the Rodney King incidents the beating, the trial and the uprising that followed have all but disappeared from public dialogue. "Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps this public debate alive by exploring the connections between the incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing though complicated significance of race in American society. The Rodney King incidents raised a number of questions regarding the relationships between poverty, racial ideology, economic competition, and the exercise of political power. What is the relationship between the beating of Rodney King and the workings of racism in America? How was it possible for defense attorneys to convince a jury that the videotape it saw did not depict an excessive or unjustified use of violence? In the burning of Koreatown, what role did racial stereotypes of African Americans and Korean Americans play, and what role did various economic factors play? What is the significance of the fact that the L.A. police department, when responding to the uprising, sent its officers to Westwood but not Koreatown? And how, finally, are we to understand the fact that not all of Los Angeles' various Latino communities took part in the uprising? "Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising includes essays by prominent philosophers, social scientists, literary critics and legal scholars. They explore these issues from a variety of distinct, theoretical perspectives, offering a nuanced picture of the Rodney King incidents. Avoiding reductionism, they illuminate the complex interplay of ideological, political and economic forces impinging on urban America. With America's black, Hispanic, and Asian populations continuing to grow, the issue of race has come to dominate political debates on public policy and educational struggles over multicultural curricula. Expressing cynic

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415907347
• ISBN-10: 0415907349
• Artikelnr.: 21276983

Autorenporträt

Robert Gooding-Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Black Studies at Amherst College. He is author of the forthcoming book Nietszche's Pursuit ofModernism, to be published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction[Robert Gooding-Williams
partOne Beating Black Bodies
Chapter 1 Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia, Judith Butler
Chapter 2 Terror Austerity Race Gender Excess Theater, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Chapter 3 Scene ... Not Heard, Houston A. Baker
partTwo Acquitting White Brutality
Chapter 4 The Rules of the Game, Patricia J. Williams
Chapter 5 Reel Time/Real Justice, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Gary Peller
partThree Assaulting America: A Political Economy Begets Ruin
Chapter 6 Race, Capitalism, and the Antidemocracy, Cedric J. Robinson
Chapter 7 Accumulation as Evisceration: Urban Rebellion and the New Growth Dynamics, Rhonda M. Williams
Chapter 8 The Los Angeles "
Race Riot" and Contemporary U.S. Politics, Michael Omi, Howard Winant
partFour On the Streets of Los Angeles
Chapter 9 Anatomy of a Rebellion: A Political-Economic Analysis, Melvin L. Oliver
Chapter 10 Uprising and Repression in L.A., Houston A. Baker
partFive Ideology, Race, and Community
Chapter 11 "
Look, a Negro!", Robert Gooding-Williams
Chapter 12 The New Enclosures: Racism in the Normalized Community, Thomas L. Dumm
Chapter 13 Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction, Sumi K. Cho
partSix The Fire This Time
Chapter 14 Home is Where the HanIs: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals, Elaine H. Kim
Chapter 15 Reflections on the Rodney King Verdict and the Paradoxes of the Black Response, Jerry G. Watts
Chapter 16 Two Nations ... Both Black
Chapter 17 Learning to Talk of Race