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- Title
TEN YEARS AFTER: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF SCHOLARSHIP ON THE 1992 LOS ANGELES RIOT.
- Authors
Herman, Max
- Abstract
Among the diverse assortment of journal articles and book chapters written shortly after the events of April 28 to May 2 1992 of Los Angeles, a pattern clearly emerges; a division among those who purported to study the "riots" in an "objective" empirical manner proclaimed by the positivist social science tradition, those who saw the "rebellion" as a means of investigating issues of ethnic identity, competition and cooperation, and those who utilized the "uprising" to address inequalities of power in the larger society. The former, whom I loosely refer to as positivists, relied on statistical analyses of "official data" to express the underlying logic of "urban unrest" or "civil disorder." The second camp, which I label "multiculturalists," employed ethnographic methods to examine the underlying motivations of various ethnic group members who acted as participants and/or victims during the "rebellion." The third and final groups whom I refer to as postmodernists, were mostly concerned with representing the voices of those at the margins of society, took a skeptical stance toward "official" sources, and treated the trial of LAPD officers and the subsequent riot as texts to be analyzed from the multiple perspectives of differently situated, actors. They saw the "uprising" as indicative of race, class and gender oppression at the local, national, and global level.
- Subjects
LOS Angeles (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; CULTURAL policy; MULTICULTURALISM; BREACH of the peace; RIOTS; ETHNICITY
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2004, Vol 11, Issue 1, p116
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article