Hot Summers Between (1917-1921) The Chicago Story
Channel: MentalHouse TV w/Khadijah
Date: 2021-06-10

Race riots have played a pivotal role in the social construction of race and racism throughout U.S. history. Since the early nineteenth century, race riots have shed light on race and class relations as well as the political dynamics in the nation. In general, riots—and the way a society responds to those riots—reveal which groups in the polity wield power at the expense of others. Race riots also fit within the histories of racism and colonialism in Western civilization. In The Origins of Totalitarianism, the philosopher Hannah Arendt observed that the brutality that culminated in the Holocaust was rooted in a long “subterranean stream of Western history.” Arendt noted:

When the European mob discovered what a “lovely virtue” a white skin could be in Africa when the English conqueror in India became an administrator who no longer believed in the universal validity of law but was convinced of his own innate capacity to rule and dominate… the stage seemed to be set for all possible horrors. Lying under anybody’s nose where many of the elements gathered together could create a totalitarian government on the basis of racism. Race riots expose underlying tensions in societies undergoing rapid technological and economic changes. The riots that transpired in the aftermath of World War I happened during a time characterized by segregation, white rule in the South, and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North. This was also an age marked by rapid social changes including industrialization, the transition to a war production economy, and technological advances in many fields. Technology was implicated in racial bloodshed as a new generation of vigilantes used telephones, electronic signboards, and telegraph messages to mobilize their forces. Nightriders used motor vehicles instead of horses to inflict widespread carnage.





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