Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Gary Peller; Cedric J. Robinson; Jerry Watts; Cornel West; Patricia Williams; Rhonda M. Williams; Howard Winant.
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In 17 often insightful essays, academics and social critics explore the connections between the Rodney King incidents--the beating, the trial and what the editor terms the subsequent "uprising"--and conditions in America's cities. Though some essays suffer from redundancy and overly academic language, others offer provocative observations. Houston A. Baker finds King's silence during his trial emblematic of the enforced silence of African Americans during the age of slavery. Arguing that the King verdict was not a unique failure of justice, Kimberle Crenshaw and Gary Peller suggest that lawyers for the Los Angeles police officers used the same tactic of decontextualizing evidence that the U.S. Supreme Court used in a decision weakening the claim of minority-owned businesses for "set-aside" government contracts. Describing the failure of police to protect Korean merchants, Sumi K. Cho observes how the Korean community, though stereotyped as a "a model minority," was sacrificed in the interests of white dominance. Gooding-Williams teaches philosophy and black studies at Amherst College.
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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. . . 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
–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
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The defense attorneys for the police in the Rodney King case made the argument that the policemen were endangered, and that Rodney King was the source of that danger. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genealogical exposure, effigy protest, normalized community, racist brutality, white paranoia, racist aggression, corporeal schema, black male body, pragmatic liberals, racial representations, formal legal equality, racial power Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Rodney King, Korean Americans, New York, African Americans, United States, Simi Valley, Asian Americans, York Times, Supreme Court, Central American, South Korean, Mike Davis, University of Chicago Press, Third World, Frantz Fanon, George Bush, Latasha Harlins, National Guard, San Francisco, World War, Cornel West, Native Americans, President Bush, White House New!
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The defense attorneys for the police in the Rodney King case made the argument that the policemen were endangered, and that Rodney King was the source of that danger. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
genealogical exposure, effigy protest, normalized community, racist brutality, white paranoia, racist aggression, corporeal schema, black male body, pragmatic liberals, racial representations, formal legal equality, racial power Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, Rodney King, Korean Americans, New York, African Americans, United States, Simi Valley, Asian Americans, York Times, Supreme Court, Central American, South Korean, Mike Davis, University of Chicago Press, Third World, Frantz Fanon, George Bush, Latasha Harlins, National Guard, San Francisco, World War, Cornel West, Native Americans, President Bush, White House New!
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- Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics by Robert Gooding-Williams on page 157, and page 193
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