A Social History of Racial Violence / Allen Grimshaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimshaw, Allen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Riots--United States.

Riots.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Summary:

"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 explanation's 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.Grimshaw includes reports and studies of racial violence from the slave insurrections of the seventeenth century to urban disturbances of the 1960s. The result is more than a descriptive record. Its contents not only demonstrate the historical nature of the problem but also provide a review of major theoretical points of view. The volume defines patterns in past and present disturbances, isolates empirical generalizations, and samples the substantial body of literature that has attempted to explain this ultimate form ofsocial conflict. It includes selections on the characteristics of rioters, on the ecology of riots, and on the role of law in urban violence, as well as theoretical interpretations developed by psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and other observers. The resulting volume will help interested readers better understand the violence that accompanied the attempts of black Americans to gain for themselves full equality."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter INTRODUCTION

chapter PART The

chapter 1 LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE

Popular fears of the

chapter Lawlessness and Violence in America and Their Special Manifestations in Changing Negro-White Relationships

and violent nation. Indeed, race riots and

chapter 2 THE PERIOD OF SLAVE INSURRECTIONS AND RESISTANCE 1640-1861

The publication of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner in and the subsequent negative response to it by ten black minor literary stir. There was sharp

chapter AmericanNegroSlaveRevolts *

chapter 3 CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 1861-1877

During the Civil War and the decade that followed it, three new in racial categories Toward the end of the War, black troops (with white officers) not all of these troops

chapter New York ' sBloodiestWeek

chapter 1863 Albon P. Man, fr

The New York draft riots of July, 1863, had their ongm largely in a Upon emancipation, they believed, great numbers of Negroes underbid them in the Northern labor

chapter 4THESECONDRECONSTRUCTIONANDTHEBEGINNINGSOFTHEGREATMIGRATION1878 -1 914

chapter The AtlantaMassacre

chapter 5 WORLD WAR I AND POSTWAR BOOM AND RACIAL READJUSTMENT 1915-1929

in the United end of the first World War and during the months im- In extent and distribution of violence the period that of the past five years. Two of the more

chapter East St. Louis Riots: Report of the Special Committee

Authorized by Congress to Investigate the East St. Louis Riots under House resolution No. 128 for the on May 28 and July 2, 1917, reports that as a result of unlawful

chapter Lynching in Omaha 700 Federal Troops Quiet Omaha; Mayor Recovering; Mob Rule Defined by Most of the Population

chapter 9 Killed in Fight with Arkansas Posse

Tappen of Helena, and seven negroes are known to be dead at Elaine, near Helena,

chapter 6 INTERWAR AND DEPRESSION 1930-1941

during the interwar years, particularly in the Great Depression. There was social but it occurred primarily among labor groups as working men on the accommodative structure. There were fewer than had been the case in earlier decades; by the the end of the

chapter TheHarlemDisturbancesof1935and1943 : Deviant Cases?

chapter 7 World War II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 1942-1954

During World War II there were a number of small racial disorders but only one large-scale race riot. This was the Detroit riot of 1943, a that compared in magnitude both to the violence of the War I period and to that which has occurred in a number of

chapter THE DETROIT RIOT A Short Lesson in Historiography Factual Report of the Committee to Investigate the Riot Occurring in Detroit on June 21, 1943

chapter Il and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment 147

than mess attendants in the Navy. The Negroes are Urban League put it in a pamphlet on The Negro and National

chapter B. POSTWARDEVELOPMENTS WhatHappenedatColumbia

chapter. wTennessee Trial

chapter II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment.

hunting knife. When questioned why he had taken the knife, the boy that he had it

chapter II and Postwar Boom and Racial Readjustment

On June 8, Harvey Clark, Jr., a twenty-nine-year-old Negro war vet- had rented at 6139 19th Court, Cicero. According to Mr. Clark, in his official complaint to the Federal authorities, the follow-

chapter 8 Massive Assault upon the Accommodative Structure and the Violence of the Sixties, 1955-1969

chapter

in some way connected

chapter The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Newark

The last outburst in Atlanta occurred on Tuesday night, June 20. That Until 4 speaker after speaker from the Negro intent to turn over 150 acres in the and dental

part PART 11 Patterns in American Racial Violence

chapter 9 Patterns i n American Racial Violence

out of the violent events previously described. For Chapter 10 I have in American racial violence. In the first paper I have attempted on patterns of violence in this country by com-

chapter Factors Contributing to Color Violence in the United States and Britain

in a I 954 monograph, examined patterns of rela- Indian Negroes in England and other English groups in an attempt to see whether a general theory of intergroup relatiom on American experience could illuminate that of Britain (Rich-

chapter THE PROFILE OF THE COUNTERRIOTER

The typical counterrioter, who risked injury and arrest to walk the He was, for example, far more likely than either that this country is worth defend- in a major war. His actions and his attitudes reflected his sub-

chapter WhoRiots? AStudy Participationinthe1967 Riots *

chapter Black Response to Contemporary U rh an Violence: A Brief Note on the Sociology of Poll Interpretation

White Americans, particularly politicians and policy makers, have un- in how black Americans

chapter PART

chapter 10 Empirical Generalizations

chapter MinorStudies Aggression : Correlations LynchingswithEconomicIndices

chapter The Precipitants and Underlying Conditions of Race Riots

The immediate preClp1tants and underlying conditions of race riots in during the past half century are the subject of this paper. Using both

chapter Ted Gurr Urban Disorder: Perspectives from the Comparative Study of Civil Strife

that the sources and dynamics of urban disorder in the United out the world. American Negro rioters and their white antagonists seem and rioting Indonesian students: most of them / Riots Stanley Lieberson and Amold R. Silverman 354

chapter high-on this index the United States ranks 36th among all

in a community in which by con- The potential for turmoil has existed since the founding of the it has exploded in this decade is suggested by

chapter 11 Theory: Taxonomic, Exotic, Psychological, and Sociological

chapter 3 Views UrbanViolence : CivilDisturbance, RacialRevolt, ClassAssault

chapter Race and Minority Riots-A Study in the Typology of Violence

an exaggeration of actuality. Certain aspects of an in accordance with certain hypotheses. In this study we will attempt to delineate a pattern of social action in / Racial Revolt, Class Assault Alien D. Grimshaw 385

chapter SomePsychologicalFactorsinNegroRaceHatredandinAnti -N egroRiots

chapter Group Violence : A Preliminary Study oftheAttitudinalPatternof and HarlemRiot

chapter Isolation, Powerlessness, and Violence: A Study

Attitudes and Participation in the Watts Riot it is no longer possible to describe the Urban that we

chapter Negro-White Relations in the Urban North: Two Areas of High Conflict Potential

In recent years students of race relations have witnessed a shift in public in Negro-white relations. Dramatic events which followed the and the more recent / Tension, and Social Violence Allen D. Grimshaw 446

part PART IV The Changing Meaning of

chapter 12 THE CHANGING MEANING OF

in which of interpretations have been suggested by careful scholars number of different disciplines. Yet, as I suggested in the Preface,

chapter Changing Patterns of Racial Violence in the United States

had experience, either direct or more remote, and could find solutions

in the consequences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-08323-X

1-351-53449-1

9781315083230

OCLC:

1003192489