Title No fire next time : Black-Korean conflicts and the future of America's cities / Patrick D. Joyce

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (219 pages) Contents Black-Korean conflict in American cities -- Explaining Black-Korean conflicts -- Comparing New York City and Los Angeles -- New York City : heat without fire -- Los Angeles : fire without smoke -- No fire next time Summary Why did Black-Korean tensions result in violent clashes in Los Angeles but not in New York City? In a book based on fieldwork and on a nationwide database he constructed to track such conflicts, Patrick D. Joyce goes beyond sociological and cultural explanations. "No Fire Text Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternatively, leave them free to erupt violently. Few encounters demonstrate this connection better than those between African Americans and Korean Americans. Cities like New York, where politics is noisy, contentious, and involves people at the grassroots, have seen extensive Black boycotts of Korean-owned businesses (usually small grocery stores). African Americans in Los Angeles have sustained few long-term boycotts of Korean American businesses--but the absence of "routine" contention there goes hand in hand with the large-scale riots of 1992 and continuous acts of individual violence. In demonstrating how conflicts between these groups were intimately tied to their political surroundings, this book yields practical lessons for the future. City governments can do little to fight widening economic inequality in an increasingly diverse nation, Joyce writes. But officials and activists can restructure political institutions to provide the foundations of new multiracial coalitions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record SUBJECT Schwarze ... gnd Metropolitan Museum of Art gnd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject African Americans -- Relations with Korean Americans. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions Korean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Korean Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions Social conflict -- New York (State) -- New York Social conflict -- California -- Los Angeles SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. African Americans -- Relations with Korean Americans. African Americans -- Social conditions. Korean Americans -- Social conditions. Race relations. Social conflict. Koreaner Rassenkonflikt SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations Subject California -- Los Angeles. New York (State) -- New York. Los Angeles, Calif. New York, NY Schwärze USA Koreaner. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501731365 150173136X

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