Lindsey Lupo

Flak-Catchers

One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Flak-Catchers explores the ways in which riot commissions-the institutional bodies appointed by an executive in the aftermath of a race riot to determine a riot timeline, investigate causes, and offer prescriptions for change-have dealt with racial violence in the United State...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780739138106
• ISBN-10: 0739138103
• Artikelnr.: 32085069

Autorenporträt

By Lindsey Lupo

Inhaltsangabe

1 Acknowledgements 2 Chapter 1. Introduction 3 Chapter 2. Literature Review
4 Chapter 3. Research Design 5 Chapter 4. The 1919 Chicago Riot and the
Chicago Commission 6 Chapter 5. The 1935 Harlem Riot and the Harlem
Commission 7 Chapter 6. The 1965 Los Angeles Riot and the McCone Commission
8 Chapter 7. The 1967 USA Riots and the Kerner Commission 9 Chapter 8. The
1992 Los Angeles Riot and the Assembly Special Committee, Senate Special
Task Force, Presidential Task Force, and the Webster-Williams Commission 10
Chapter 9. The Changing Nature of Riot Commission Politics in the
Post-Kerner Commission Years 11 Chapter 10. Conclusion 12 Archive Notes 13
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