TY - GEN T1 - Civil racism : the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion and the crisis of racial burnout A1 - Itagaki, Lynn Mie, 1974- LA - English PP - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn942597174 AB - The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or operated by Korean Americans in neighborhoods that were predominantly Black and Latina/o. Civil Racism examines a range of cultural reactions to the?riots? anchored by calls for a racist civility, a central component of the aesthetics and politics of the post?civil rights era. Lynn Mie Itagaki argues that the rebellion interrupted the rhetoric of?civil racism,? which she defines as the preservation of civility at the expense of racial equality. As an expression of structural racism, Itagaki writes, civil racism exhibits the active-- though often unintentional-- perpetuation of discrimination through one's everyday engagement with the state and society. She is particularly interested in how civility manifests in societal institutions such as the family, the school, and the neighborhood, and she investigates dramatic, filmic, and literary texts by African American, Asian American, and Latina/o artists and writers that contest these demands for a racist civility. Itagaki specifically addresses what she sees as two?blind spots? in society and in scholarship. One is the invisibility of Asians and Latinas/os in media coverage and popular culture that, she posits, importantly shapes Black-White racial formations that dominate mainstream discourse about race. The second is the scholarly separation of two critical traditions that should be joined in analyses of racial injustice and the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion: comparative race studies and feminist theories. Civil Racism insists that the 1992?riots? continue to matter, that the artistic responses matter, and that-- more than twenty years later-- debates about issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender are more urgent than ever. NO - Title from PDF file title page (viewed November 17, 2016). CN - F869.L89 A2532 2016eb SN - 9781452950167 SN - 1452950164 SN - 9780816699209 SN - 0816699208 SN - 9780816699216 SN - 0816699216 KW - Los Angeles (Calif.) : Race relations : History : 20th century. KW - Riots : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - Protest movements : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - African Americans : California : Los Angeles : Social conditions : 20th century. KW - Minorities : California : Los Angeles : Social conditions : 20th century. KW - Racism : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - Civil society : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - Courtesy : Social aspects : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - Burn out (Psychology) : Social aspects : California : Los Angeles : History : 20th century. KW - Racism : history KW - Riots : history KW - Black or African American : history KW - Social Discrimination : history KW - Contestation : Californie : Los Angeles : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Noirs américains : Californie : Los Angeles : Conditions sociales : 20e siècle. KW - Minorités : Californie : Los Angeles : Conditions sociales : 20e siècle. KW - Racisme : Californie : Los Angeles : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Société civile : Californie : Los Angeles : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Épuisement professionnel : Aspect social : Californie : Los Angeles : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Émeutes : Californie : Los Angeles : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - African Americans : Social conditions KW - Civil society KW - Minorities : Social conditions KW - Protest movements KW - Race relations KW - Racism KW - Riots KW - California : Los Angeles KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -