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The Riot Within
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Author : Rodney King
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-05-29
The Riot Within written by Rodney King and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Social Science categories.
On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad's stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse. King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engaged in a high-speed chase with the LAPD, who finally pulled him over. What happened next shocked the nation. A group of officers brutally beat King with their metal batons, Tasered and kicked him into submission—all caught on videotape by a nearby resident. The infamous Rodney King Incident was born when this first instance of citizen surveillance revealed a shocking moment of police brutality, a horrific scene that stunned and riveted the nation via the evening news. Racial tensions long smoldering in L.A. ignited into a firestorm thirteen months later when four white officers were acquitted by a mostly white jury. Los Angeles was engulfed in flames as people rioted in the streets. More than fifty people were dead, hundreds were hospitalized, and countless homes and businesses were destroyed. King's plaintive question, "Can we all just get along?" became a sincere but haunting plea for reconciliation that reflected the heartbreak and despair caused by America's racial discord in the early 1990s. While Rodney King is now an icon, he is by no means an angel. King has had run-ins with the law and continues a lifelong struggle with alcohol addiction. But King refuses to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that was inflicted upon him that night in 1991. While this nation has made strides during those twenty years to heal, so has Rodney King, and his inspiring story can teach us all lessons about forgiveness, redemption, and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation.
The Riot
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Author : Kalman Dubov
language : en
Publisher: Kalman Dubov
Release Date : 2021-12-13
The Riot written by Kalman Dubov and has been published by Kalman Dubov this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-13 with Religion categories.
Much has been written and analyzed about Chassidism, from its growth and development in Eastern Europe, the challenges its early and later leaders faced, and its transplantation from the Eastern European shtetl to the United States after the Second World War. As different Chassidic sect reflected their own unique identity, their persona took on emphases by which they became known. For the most part, there is respect for other sects, but when two sects with strong ideologies clash, that flashpoint can become a physical altercation. From a sociological viewpoint, it is the unique and different that are more readily studied because the difference can be examined from the norm in that society. And such an analysis takes on more poignant resonance when two major Chassidic sects resort to the physical by way of a ‘riot’ in the streets of Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn, New York. In 1977, I witnessed such a disturbance in the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, between Lubavitch and Satmar Chassidim. Lubavitchers had marched from their headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, to disseminate their ideology in the many Chassidic sects in Williamsburg. Such a march was done annually for many years, but this year was different because it was the last time it took place. The fisticuffs resulted in Lubavitch members being taken to the hospital by ambulance on the Passover holy day. The narrative reviews my presence in Williamsburg and, coincidentally, the larger maternal family’s attitude towards both Satmar and Lubavitch. These members were, for the most part, not part of either community. I also discuss the Black Angels, a unique ultra-religious Jewish group in Williamsburg, and their place during the riot. Finally, I review the hard-core beliefs endemic in these sects, concluding with four essential criteria necessary for dialogue in dysfunctional families.
Official Negligence
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Author : Lou Cannon
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1997
Official Negligence written by Lou Cannon and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Current Events categories.
How Rodney King and the riots changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.
The Riot Inside Me
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Author : Wanda Coleman
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2005
The Riot Inside Me written by Wanda Coleman and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The Riot Inside Me finds the author at the bloody crossroads where art and politics, the personal and the political, and Southern California and the wider world meet and trade blows before resuming their separate paths. The twenty-five items gathered here - a "hopscotch" of essays, memoirs, interviews, journal entries, letters, and reports - are divided into four sections. One collects intimate autobiographical pieces, including a moving portrait of her late first husband, a moth drawn to the flames of the more extreme forms of '60s radicalism. Another is reserved for polemics, mainly issues of Black, White, Brown, and Yellow. A third reprints Coleman's infamous "bad" review of Maya Angelou's A Song Flung Up to Heaven - "the most controversial piece I've written" - and a caustically funny report on its fallout. The book concludes with a group of essays on racial violence, poetry and the post-9/11 mindset, topical pieces that are sardonic when it comes to politics and groups but, like all of Coleman's writing, tender and hopeful when it comes to individuals."--BOOK JACKET.
Riot In Alexandria
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Author : Edward J. Watts
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-02-23
Riot In Alexandria written by Edward J. Watts and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with History categories.
This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a riot that erupted in Alexandria in 486 when a group of students attacked a Christian adolescent who had publicly insulted the students' teachers. Pagan students, Christians affiliated with a local monastery, and the Alexandrian ecclesiastical leaders all cast the incident in a different light, and each group tried with that interpretation to influence subsequent events. Watts, drawing on Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac sources, shows how historical traditions and notions of a shared past shaped the interactions and behavior of these high-profile communities. Connecting oral and written texts to the personal relationships that gave them meaning and to the actions that gave them form, Riot in Alexandria draws new attention to the understudied social and cultural history of the later fifth-century Roman world and at the same time opens a new window on late antique intellectual life.
Riot In The Cities
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Author : Richard A. Chikota
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1970
Riot In The Cities written by Richard A. Chikota and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Law enforcement categories.
This symposium is a sober, reasoned, well-documented presentation by a number of elergymen, lawyers, judges, sociologists, and political scientists who have attempted to come to grips with the problem of urban riots.
Riot
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Author : Walter Dean Myers
language : en
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Riot written by Walter Dean Myers and has been published by Carolrhoda Lab ® this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft—a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year's income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down; and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police cannot hold out against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put down the insurrection, which they do—brutally. Fifteen-year-old Claire, the beloved daughter of a black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring sides. Faced with the breakdown of the city—the home—she has loved, Claire must discover the strength and resilience to address the new world in which she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and her identity. Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and class head-on, Walter Dean Myers has written another stirring and exciting novel that will shake up assumptions, and lift the spirit.
Riot Baby
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Author : Tochi Onyebuchi
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2020-01-21
Riot Baby written by Tochi Onyebuchi and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-21 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award Winner of an 2021 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2020 New England Book Award for Fiction Winner of the 2021 Ignyte Award Winner of the 2021 AABMC Literary Award A 2021 Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Best Outstanding Work of Literary Fiction A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist A 2021 Nebula Award Finalist A 2021 Locus Award Finalist A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | Wired | Book Riot | Publishers Weekly | NYPL | The Austen Chronicle | Kobo | GooglePlay | Good Housekeeping | Powell's Books | Den of Geek "Riot Baby, Onyebuchi's first novel for adults, is as much the story of Ella and her brother, Kevin, as it is the story of black pain in America, of the extent and lineage of police brutality, racism and injustice in this country, written in prose as searing and precise as hot diamonds."—The New York Times "Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."—Marlon James Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands. Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative. It burns fearlessly toward revolution and has quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are both shockingly human and immeasurably powerful. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by racism. Their futures might alter the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Riot Grrrl Collection
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Author : Lisa Darms
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2015-01-19
The Riot Grrrl Collection written by Lisa Darms and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-19 with Music categories.
Archival material from the 1990s underground movement “preserves a vital history of feminism” (Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling). For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl. Against the backdrop of the culture wars and before the rise of the Internet or desktop publishing, the zine and music culture of the Riot Grrrl movement empowered young women across the country to speak out against sexism and oppression, creating a powerful new force of liberation and unity within and outside of the women’s movement. While feminist bands like Bikini Kill and Bratmobile fought for their place in a male-dominated punk scene, their members and fans developed an extensive DIY network of activism and support. The Riot Grrrl Collection reproduces a sampling of the original zines, posters, and printed matter for the first time since their initial distribution in the 1980s and ’90s, and includes an original essay by Johanna Fateman and an introduction by Lisa Darms.
Riot In The Night
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Author : Bonnie Hinman
language : en
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Release Date : 1998-12
Riot In The Night written by Bonnie Hinman and has been published by Barbour Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Henry Lankford survives the biggest flood Cincinnati has seen. As he and his cousin, Rachel Farley, spend time with Dr. Daniel Drake, they learn that the dreaded disease cholera is headed toward the city. At the same time, armed whites are roaming Cincinnati attacking those trying to abolish slavery.