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A social history of racial violence (2017). Grimshaw, Allen D. "Changing patterns of racial violence in the United States." Notre Dame Law Review. 40 (1964): 534+ online; Hall, Patricia Wong, and Victor M. Hwang, eds. Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance (2001)
By early June, at least 200 American cities had imposed curfews, while more than 30 states and Washington, D.C. had activated over 62,000 National Guard personnel into unrest. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] By the end of June, at least 14,000 people had been arrested at protests.
Strain of violence: Historical studies of American violence and vigilantism (Oxford UP, 1975) online; also see online. Bruns, Roger. Zoot Suit Riots (ABC-CLIO 2014), Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1940s. Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (1922) on Chicago race riot of 1919
In the United States, the relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. [1] Crime rates vary significantly between racial groups; however, academic research indicates that the over-representation of some racial minorities in the criminal justice system can in part be explained by socioeconomic factors, [2] [3] such as ...
The New Yorker compared the dispersed national response to an "American Spring" on par with the Arab Spring and other international revolutionary waves. [21] Global protests also focused on symbols of racial injustice, with The New Yorker also having a part on international solidarity towards police violence.
The dependence of ethnic groups on their co-ethnic local politician for access to state resources is likely to make them more responsive to calls of violence against other ethnic groups. [35] Therefore, the existence of these local patronage channels generates incentives for ethnic groups to engage in politically motivated violence.
Americans of Latin American ancestry (often categorized as "Hispanic" or Hispanic and Latino Americans) come from a wide variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. The nature of discrimination against them has often depended on how their physical appearance aligns with racial markers, particularly Black or Indigenous features.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless.
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