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CITY CHARACTERISTICS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE.
- Source :
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Social Science Quarterly (Southwestern Social Sciences Association) . Jun1974, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p52-64. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 1974
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Abstract
- The article focuses on the relationship between city characteristics and racial violence in the U.S. Previous research examining the impact of city characteristics on racial violence has generally failed to support most commonly asserted hypotheses, and/or has not systematically treated complex theories requiring multivariate controls. These ambiguous findings strengthen earlier explanations which deemphasize intercity differences in the condition of blacks and attribute primary importance to societal determinants, notably institutionalized deprivation of blacks and white racism. Although the emphasis is perhaps warranted, it is easy to overemphasize deprivation and racism as societal causes when such factors can be conceptualized as varying by cities. An unresolved issue, which can only be verbally addressed in this paper, concerns qualitative variations in racial violence. Those incidents occurring early in this century were characterized by white attacks on blacks and set against the background of black competition in the white labor markets of the North.
- Subjects :
- *RACISM
*URBAN research
*VIOLENCE research
*BLACK people
*WHITE people
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00384941
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Social Science Quarterly (Southwestern Social Sciences Association)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 16642418