--Not directly related to Doug's quote, but there's a great book by Nancy Abelmann and John Lie, "Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots", which unpacks the difference between Korean immigrant perceptions of the riots with white Americans' view of the riots. The latter, informed by round the clock pundits harping on the the theme, saw the riots as a 'new' riot that was not shaped by black-white relations and more by 'interethnic' conflict [i.e. Korean-Black misunderstanding, tension..]. Koreans saw something different, namely their neighborhoods were the primary target of the rioters not because of 'interethnic' or 'interracial' tensions but because the National Guard stuck to cordening off White neighborhoods...Add that to the historic and racially shaped [i.e. black-white] inequality in LA...and the riots didn't look that much different from riots in the 60's...
Steve
Stephen Philion Assistant Professor St. Cloud State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology
http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/
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