Understanding urban unrest
Subtitle: from Reverend King to Rodney King
By: Dennis E. Gale.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Violence -- Government policy -- United States.; Urban poor -- Government policy -- United States.; Riots -- United States.; Urban policy -- United States.; Community development, Urban -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Social conditions.
Description: Mob violence - often an interracial expression of the urban poverty found in major cities in the United States - is a phenomenon that has plagued this country repeatedly in the twentieth century. From Reverend King to Rodney King, historical figures and incidents have shed new light on circumstances that bring about violence and the political context in which federal policy responds to the seemingly intractable social and economic problems that underlie the violence.

In Understanding Urban Unrest, author Dennis E. Gale compares the federal programs that have been tested since 1966 and makes observations about the probable political response to urban interracial violence and poverty in the future. In addition, he contends that place-based patchwork policies are not effective and that only fundamental changes in the United States's economic structure and federal policy agenda can offer any real solutions for the nation's cities and its poor.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Los Angeles '92 was nothing new; title: Civil rights and uncivil riots, 1964-66; title: Reverend King, the urban poor and an epidemic of rioting, 1966; title: Riot-driven public policy, 1966-68; title: Model cities program plays out, 1969-75; title: From Reverend King to Rodney King; title: Responding to urban interracial mob violence in the 1998s; title: Urban poverty, interracial mob violence and federal reaction : the problem and political contexts; title: Urban poverty, interracial mob violence and federal reaction : the policy context.