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Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King

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The title "Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King" is indeed unfortunate. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther KingJr.received the Nobel Peace Prize and has a national holiday in his honor. Rodney King was a nobody until he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time;then, a video camera made him an instant media hero. The author's placement of these two together in his title is an indication of his lack of sensitivity to the core issues facing America's urban underclass.

But the book goes downhill from there. The author spends too much time criticizing the civil rights leadership while minimizing the continuing impact of institutional racism.While acknowledging the lack of comprehensive social policy planning, this author gives no real clue as to why this absence of planning occured in the past and why it is still taking place now.While this is a passable work, there are much better books on urban underclass issues such as William Julius Wilson's "When Work Disappears"

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The title "Understanding Urban Unrest: From Reverend King to Rodney King" is indeed unfortunate. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther KingJr.received the Nobel Peace Prize and has a national holiday in his honor. Rodney King was a nobody until he found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time until a video camera made him an instant media hero. The author's placement of these two together in hi title is an indication of his lack of sensitivity to the core issues facing America's urban underclass.

But the book goes downhill from there. The author spends too much time criticizing the civil rights leadership while minimizing the continuing impact of institutional racism.While acknowledging the lack of comprehensive social policy planning, this author gives no real clue as to why this absence of planning occured in the past and why it is still taking place now.

R

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