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RACE RIOTS: LESSONS LEARNED
THE REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. called riots the language of the unheard, but Janet AbuLughod has listened. In her new, thought-provoking book Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles (Oxford University Press), the distinguished sociologist seeks for and identifies similarities and differences among riots in America's three largest cities-those in 1919 and 1968 in Chicago, in 1943 and 1964 in New...