Overview

The Rodney King incidents - the beating, the trial and the uprising - raised a number of questions about the connections 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 how, 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 complicated picture of the Rodney King incidents. Avoiding reductionism, they illuminate the complex interplay of ideological, political and economic forces impinging on urban America.

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Author:   Robert Gooding-Williams
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780415907347

ISBN 10:   0415907349
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   19 April 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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;

Reviews

. . . very impressive . . . These works are not about race and urban uprising. They are about all of us, not the American Dream but the American Real. - The San Diego Review The book Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising offers a timely reminder that the beating of Rodney King, the outcome of the Simi Valley trial of the police officers involved in it, and the subsequent uprisings in response to the verdict are best understood in social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors demonstrate that a critical analysis of popular representations of these events can illuminate the larger subject of race relations in American society. The book suggests that a multidisciplanary approach is needed to appreciate fully the vast and interlocking dimensions of the problem.. -Gail Lee Dubrow, Journal of the American Planning Association

. . . very impressive . . . These works are not about race and urban uprising. They are about all of us, not the American Dream but the American Real. <br>- The San Diego Review <br> The book Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising offers a timely reminder that the beating of Rodney King, the outcome of the Simi Valley trial of the police officers involved in it, and the subsequent uprisings in response to the verdict are best understood in social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors demonstrate that a critical analysis of popular representations of these events can illuminate the larger subject of race relations in American society. The book suggests that a multidisciplanary approach is needed to appreciate fully the vast and interlocking dimensions of the problem.. <br>-Gail Lee Dubrow, Journal of the American Planning Association <br>

Author Information

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.

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