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Black Violence: Political Impact of the 1960s Riots
By (Author) James W. Button
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
306.20973
Hardback
264
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to what extent the national government responded to the black urban riots, but he also moves toward a theoretical defi