Violence in America Protest, Rebellion, Reform

Name: Violence in America Protest, Rebellion, Reform
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ISBN: 9780803932302

ISBN-10: 0803932308

ISBN-13: 9780803932302

Edition: 3rd 1989

Authors: Ted Robert Gurr

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An excellent companion to Violence in America: The History of Crime, this volume provides fascinating insight into recently developed theories on the sources of recurring conflict in American society. With their main focus on traumatic issues that have generated group violence and continue to do so, the contributors discuss the most intractable source of social and political conflict in our history--the resistance of Black Americans to their inferior status, and the efforts of White Americans to keep them there. Other intriguing topics include the emergence and decline of political terrorism and the continuation of violent threats from right-wing extremists, such as the Klan, the Order, and…

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List price: $151.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Ted Robert Gurr is former Director of the Minorities at Risk Project and Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Government & Politics at the University of Maryland. He is author of numerous books and articles including Peoples vs. States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century (2000).



Foreword to the 1988 Edition


The History of Protest, Rebellion, and Reform in America



An Overview


Historical Patterns of Violence in America



Collective Violence in European Perspective



Protest and Rebellion in the 1960s



The United States in World Perspective


Right-Wing Extremism from the Ku Klux Klan to the Order, 1915 to 1988



American Indian Resistance and Protest



Domestic Violence and America's Wars



An Historical Interpretation


Political Terrorism in the United States



Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Trends


Return to 'Normalcy'



Organized Racial Violence in the Post-World War II South


The Politics of Black Insurgency 1930-1975



The Outcomes of Contemporary Black Protest and Violence



Group Rebellion in America



The Fire Next Time?


Violence, Social Theory, and the Historians



The Debate over Consensus and Culture in America