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Bibliography for Uprisings, Rebellions, Lynch Mobs, and Protests

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Abu-Lughod, Janet L. (2007) Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press.

Baldassere, Mark, ed. (1994) The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).

Bergesen, Albert. and Max Herman, “Immigration, Race, and Riot: The 1992 Los Angeles Uprising,” American Sociological Review 63:1 (Feb 1998): 39-54. .

Cannon, Lou.  Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.  1999.  Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Cohen, Nathan Ed.  The Los Angeles Riots: A Socio-Psychological Study.  1970. New York: Praeger Publishers.

Conot, Robert. 1967. Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness: The First Full Story of America's Long Hot Summer of Hate.  New York: Bantam Books

Freer, Regina. 1994. “Black-Korean conflict.” In Baldassare, M. (ed.), The Los Angeles Riots: Lessons for the Urban Future, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 175-204.

Fulton, William (1997) The Reluctant Metropolis The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

Garcia, Mario T., and Sal Castro.  2011.  Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Struggle for Educational Justice.  Chapel Hill: University fo North Carolina Press.

Governor's [McCone] Commission on the Los Angeles Riots. Violence in the City--An End or A Beginning? (Sacramento: 1966).
                    See also: R. M. Fogelson. “White on Black: A Critique of the McCone Commission Report on the Los Angeles Riots,” Political Science Quarterly  82:3 (Sept 1967): 337-367.

                    See also: Rustin, Bayard. "The Watts Manifesto and the McCone Report." Commentary (March 1966) 41:29-35.

Gillette, Howard (2010) Review Essays: Is this the Neoliberal Moment?, Journal of Urban History 36:3, Pp. 393-397

Hunt, D. M.  (1997).  Screening the Los Angeles “Riots:”  Race, Seeing, and Resistance.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

James, Darryl, ed. 2002.  The Los Angeles Riots: Three Decades of Revolution.  Tenacious Books.

Kusmer, Kenneth L and Joe William Trotter, Eds. (2009) African American Urban History Since World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mazon, Mauricio.  1984.  The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation. Austin: University of Texas Press

McWilliams, Carey (1944) Prejudice Japanese-Americans Symbol of Racial Intolerance. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

Ana Muñiz, 2015.  Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Rutgers University Press.

Murch, Donna (2010) Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

O’Connor, Alice (2001) Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Olzak, Susan, Suzanne Shanahan, and Elizabeth H. McEneaney.  1996) “Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960 to 1993,” American Sociological Review 61:4 (Aug 1996): 590-613.

Ong, Paul, and Hee, Suzanne. 1993.  Losses in the Los Angeles Civil Unrest, April 29 - May 1, 1992.  Center for Pacific Rim Studies, U.C.L.A.

Pritchett, William E. and Mark H. Rose (2008) Introduction: Politics and the American City, 1940-1990, Journal of Urban History 34: 2, Pp. 209-220

Rich, Michael. (1993) “Riot and Reason: Crafting an Urban Policy Response.” Publius 23(3): 115-134.

Schulberg, Budd, ed.  1967. From the Ashes: Voices of Watts. New York. The New American Library, Inc.

Situationist International. The Watts Riot, 1965 The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy (1965): Rpt. Baltimore: Firestarter Press.

Smith,  Anna Deveare  1994. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.  Anchor Books.

Staff of the Los Angeles Times.  1992.  Understanding the Riots: Los Angeles Before and After the Rodney King Case  Los Angeles Times.

Stevenson, Brenda 2015. The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots.  Oxford University Press. 

Tervalon, Jervey. 2002.  Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992.  Los Angeles: Really Great Books.

Thompson, Heather Ann (2000) Understanding Rioting in Postwar Urban America, Journal of Urban History 26:3, Pp. 391-402 

U.S. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee on Un-American Activities. 1968. Subversive Influences in Riots, Looting, and Burning Part 3-A (Los Angeles-Watts). 19th Congress, 2nd Sess., 28 June. 

Weaver, Vesla M. and Amy E. Lerman (2010) Political Consequences of the Carceral State, American Political Science Review 104:2, Pp. 817-833

Webster, William H. and Hubert Williams. “The City in Crisis,” A Report by the Special Advisor to the Board of Police Commissioners on the Civil Disorder in Los Angeles, October 21, 1992.

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