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Boston Riots: Three Centuries of Social Violence

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Professor Tager seems to think that a scuffle, fist fight, shoving match, or chanting constitutes a riot. In his book, BOSTON RIOTS, Prof. Tager is guilty of semantic manipulation as he redefines the word 'riot' to fit his politically correct neo-Marxist interpretation of Boston history. For example, I was personally involved in a few of the anti-forced busing demonstrations mentioned in 'Boston Riots' yet no riot of any kind broke out. Professor Tager writes myopically being unaffected and far away from his subject matter. He strangely omits the fact that some of the scuffles which broke out in front of my high school, South Boston High, were instigated by the Tactical Police Force (T.P.F.). It is a singular point in history that Boston has never had a riot.

I read Boston Riots, by Jack Tager, for my Modern Boston history class at UMass, and I enjoyed every moment of it. It might also have helped that Jack Tager was my professor for the course. I highly recommend his book.

Boston Riots is great -- Professor Tager takes the cake as far as riot reading goes, stealing the thunder away from Jervey Tervalon's book Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992.