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Overview

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.

This provocative and insightful perspective on the race issue in contemporary America deepens the public debate by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incident and its ensuing riots and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power. Includes essays by prominent philosophers, social scientists, literary critics, and legal scholars.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
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. (May)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415907354
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 4/28/1993
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Gooding-Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Black Studies at Amherst College. He is author of the forthcoming book Nietszche's Pursuit of Modernism, to be published by Routledge.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Pt. 1 Beating Black Bodies
1 Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia 15
2 Terror Austerity Race Gender Excess Theater 23
3 Scene...Not Heard 38
Pt. 2 Acquitting White Brutality
4 The Rules of the Game 51
5 Reel Time/Real Justice 56
Pt. 3 Assaulting America: A Political Economy Begets Ruin
6 Race, Capitalism, and the Antidemocracy 73
7 Accumulation as Evisceration: Urban Rebellion and the New Growth Dynamics 82
8 The Los Angeles "Race Riot" and Contemporary U.S. Politics 97
Pt. 4 On the Streets of Los Angeles
9 Anatomy of a Rebellion: A Political-Economic Analysis 117
10 Uprising and Repression in L.A.: An Interview with Mike Davis 142
Pt. 5 Ideology, Race, and Community
11 "Look, a Negro!" 157
12 The New Enclosures: Racism in the Normalized Community 178
13 Korean Americans vs. African Americans: Conflict and Construction 196
Pt. 6 The Fire This Time
14 Home is Where the Han Is: A Korean-American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals 215
15 Reflections on the Rodney King Verdict and the Paradoxes of the Black Response 236
16 Two Nations...Both Black 249
17 Learning to Talk of Race 255
Index 261
Contributors 273
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