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OverviewWhy 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 Next Time shows how political practices and urban institutions can channel racial and ethnic tensions into protest or, alternately, 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 for new multiracial coalitions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick D. JoycePublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801488900ISBN 10: 0801488907 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 22 July 2003 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsSome of Joyce's major findings have important policy implications because they teach local community leaders, government officials, and politicians a lesson about how to transform latent intergroup tensions into less violent forms of conflict. -Pyong Gap Min, The Journal of Asian Studies, November 2004 Some of Joyce's major findings have important policy implications because they teach local community leaders, government officials, and politicians a lesson about how to transform latent intergroup tensions into less violent forms of conflict. Pyong Gap Min, The Journal of Asian Studies, November 2004 Author InformationPatrick D. Joyce has taught government and politics at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and the College of the Holy Cross. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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