No Fire Next Time : Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities / Patrick D. Joyce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joyce, Patrick D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--California--Los Angeles.

Social conflict.

Social conflict--New York (State)--New York.

Korean Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Korean Americans.

African Americans--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

African Americans.

Korean Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

African Americans--Relations with Korean Americans.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Race relations.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.

New York (N.Y.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. No Fire Next Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternately, leave them free to erupt violently. Few encounters demonstrate this connection better than those between African Americans and Korean Americans.Cities like New York, where politics is noisy, contentious, and involves people at the grassroots, have seen extensive Black boycotts of Korean-owned businesses (usually small grocery stores). African Americans in Los Angeles have sustained few long-term boycotts of Korean American businesses-but the absence of "routine" contention there goes hand in hand with the large-scale riots of 1992 and continuous acts of individual violence.In demonstrating how conflicts between these groups were intimately tied to their political surroundings, this book yields practical lessons for the future. City governments can do little to fight widening economic inequality in an increasingly diverse nation, Joyce writes. But officials and activists can restructure political institutions to provide the foundations for new multiracial coalitions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Black-Korean Conflict in American Cities

Chapter 2. Explaining Black-Korean Conflicts

Chapter 3. Comparing New York City and Los Angeles

Chapter 4. New York City: Heat without Fire

Chapter 5. Los Angeles: Fire without Smoke

Chapter 6. No Fire Next Time

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-214) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501731365

150173136X

OCLC:

1080549983