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Ethnic Peace in the American City:

Building Community in LosAngeles and Beyond
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NYU Press, 1999 - Political Science - 179 pages

The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Nearly half of the businesses destroyed were Korean American owned, and nearly half of the people arrested were Latino.

In the aftermath of the unrest, Los Angeles, with its extremely diverse population, emerged as a particularly useful site in which to examine race relations. Ethnic Peace in the American City documents the nature of contemporary inter-ethnic relations in the United States by describing the economic, political, and psychological dynamics of race relations in inner-city Los Angeles. Drawing from local as well as international examples, the authors present strategies such as coalition building, dispute resolution, and community organizing.

Moving beyond the stereotyped focus on negative interactions between minority groups such as Korean-owned businesses and the African American community, and countering the white-black or bi-racial paradigms of American race relations, the authors explore practical means by which ethnically fragmented neighborhoods nationwide can work together to begin to address their common concerns before tensions become explosive.

  

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Contents

Americas First Multiethnic Civil Unrest
9
KoreanAfrican American Relations
31
The Media the Invisible Minority and Race
59
The BlackKorean
105
Conflict Resolution and Community Development
129
Notes
143
Index
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About the Authors
179
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Edward T. Chang,Jeannette Diaz-Veizades
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About the author (1999)

Chang is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and former Director of the Center for Asian Pacific America at the University of California.

Jeannette Diaz-Veizades is an executive faculty member at the Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco.

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TitleEthnic Peace in the American City: Building Community in LosAngeles and Beyond
AuthorsEdward T. Chang, Jeannette Diaz-Veizades
PublisherNYU Press, 1999
ISBN0814715842, 9780814715840
Length179 pages
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Political Science / General
Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
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