[lbo-talk] riots of the '60s

[Carrol Cox]

The materials for any research on the riots themselves is either not 
available or available only in police files. It would have to start out 
with oral history from hundreds of participants.  And that would have 
had to be collected almost immediately after each riot. The other, 
utterly undependable source, would be newspaper accounts. Comparing 
riots to revolutons is something like comparign skin srapings from a 
partridge with an elephant in a zoo. As I said in the post fwd from 
pen-l: Riots are pre-political responses to outrages in the absence of 
any formal means of redress. No riots in neighborhoods in which either 
the Panthers or SNCC had been active.

Carrol

On 8/12/2011 3:14 AM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> Thomas Sugrue's "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" is good on the creation of
> the conditions in Detroit, and other NE cities, that led to the riots of the
> 60s.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Urban-Crisis-Inequality-Princeton/dp/0691121869
>
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:06 PM, c b<cb31450 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Ferenc Molnar  riots of the '60s
>>
>>
>> Around fifteen years ago, I did a bit of research on the urban riots
>> of the '60's and how they impacted the way Northeastern cities had
>> been redeveloped in the 70's and 80's and I remember being startled at
>> how little scholarly material had been written about them.  It felt
>> like academia had been complicit in erasing an essential period of
>> U.S. history from the record, especially in regards to the history of
>> U.S. cities. Perhaps that's changed since then, I don't know...
>>
>> ^^^^^^^
>> CB: I'd like to see your research, if you please. We just had a
>> program reviewing 1967 Detroit, though not very scholarly. Did you use
>> the Kerner Commission Report ?
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