[HTML][HTML] The Kerner Commission report fifty years later: Revisiting the American dream

ST Gooden, SL Myers - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of …, 2018 - rsfjournal.org
The 1968 account of the 1967 race riots, authored by the National Advisory Commission on
Civil Disorders (the Kerner Commission, thus the Kerner report), directly called into question …

How does it feel to be a problem? The missing Kerner Commission report

KL Bentley-Edwards, MC Edwards… - RSF: The Russell …, 2018 - rsfjournal.org
Using an intersectional lens of race and gender, this article offers a critique of the Kerner
Commission report and fills the gap of the missing analysis of white rage and of black …

Real American dreams (can be nightmares)

K Stewart - Cultural studies and political theory, 2000 - degruyter.com
Things are complicated and they're not going well. Suddenly it looks as if we're in a zero-
sum game and everyone is either a winner or a loser. Under the guise of" the good …

American sociology's investigations of the American dream: Retrospect and prospect

RC Hauhart - The American Sociologist, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The American Dream is among the United States' most recognizable and revered
symbols of our national heritage. Celebrated in popular culture, this statement of national …

Detroit Fifty Years After the Kerner Report: What Has Changed, What Has Not, and Why?

R Farley - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2018 - rsfjournal.org
Immediately after the Detroit violence of July 1967, President Johnson appointed the Kerner
Commission and ordered it to determine what had happened, why, and what could be done …

[BOOK][B] Decade of nightmares: The end of the sixties and the making of eighties America

P Jenkins - 2006 - books.google.com
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and
the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide …

The Los Angeles “race riot” and contemporary US politics

M Omi, H Winant - Reading Rodney King/reading urban uprising, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
The Los Angeles "Race Riot" and Contemporary US Politics Page 1 8 The Los Angeles "Race
Riot" and Contemporary US Politics MichaelOmi and Howard Winant On thinking about Hell, I …

Reflections on the Rodney King verdict and the paradoxes of the black response

JG Watts - Reading Rodney King/reading urban uprising, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
It appears almost trivial, if not belittling, today to claim that Afro-American urban communities
are in crisis. The word “crisis” just does not adequately capture the catastrophic doom that …

America's melting pot reconsidered

C Hirschman - Annual review of sociology, 1983 - annualreviews.org
These powerful words are spoken by David, the young, idealistic Jewish immigrant in
Zangwill's pre-World WarIplay, The Melting Pot. In spite of the horror of experiencing a …

[CITATION][C] Violence and riots in urban America

RF Allen, CH Adair - 1969 - CA Jones Publishing Company