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Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout

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Description for Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.

The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or operated by Korean Americans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black and Latina/o. Civil Racism examines a range of cultural reactions to the “riots” anchored by calls for a racist civility, a central component of the aesthetics and politics of the post–civil rights era.

Lynn Mie Itagaki argues that the rebellion interrupted ... Read more

Itagaki specifically addresses what she sees as two “blind spots” in society and in scholarship. One is the invisibility of Asians and Latinas/os in media coverage and popular culture that, she posits, importantly shapes Black–White racial formations in dominant mainstream discourses about race. The second is the scholarly separation of two critical traditions that should be joined in analyses of racial injustice and the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion: comparative race studies and feminist theories.

Civil Racism insists that the 1992 “riots” continue to matter, that the artistic responses matter, and that—more than twenty years later—debates about issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender are more urgent than ever.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816699216
SKU
V9780816699216
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About Lynn Mie Itagaki
Lynn Mie Itagaki is assistant professor in the departments of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and the Program Coordinator in Asian American Studies at The Ohio State University.

Reviews for Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
"Lynn Mie Itagaki's book is an incisive critique of the civil racism that has become dominant in both liberal and conservative discourses of race in the post-Civil Rights era."—Daniel Kim, Brown University "Given recent urban unrest that lays bare tensions between state power, late capitalism, and race, this is a timely book."—CHOICE "Civil Racism considerably advances literature on the ... Read more

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