Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Lynn Mie Itagaki
Abstract
Racial Burnout: The 1992 Los Angeles “Riots” and the Crisis of Civil Racism examines cultural responses to the riots through the aesthetics and politics of the post-civil rights era and argues that this historical event interrupts the rhetoric of civil racism: the maintenance of civility at the expense of racial equality. As a manifestation of structural racism, civil racism includes the active, though often unintentional, perpetuation of discrimination through one’s everyday engagement with the state and society
Keywords:
interracial conflict,
police brutality,
civil unrest,
urban violence,
writers of color,
los angeles,
multiculturalism,
post-civil rights,
black-korean conflict,
post-cold war
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816699209 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816699209.001.0001 |
