Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising

by RobertGooding-Williams (Editor)

Synopsis

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Gary Peller; Cedric J. Robinson; Jerry Watts; Cornel West; Patricia Williams; Rhonda M. Williams; Howard Winant.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04 Nov 1993

ISBN 10: 0415907357
ISBN 13: 9780415907354

Media Reviews
. . . very impressive . . . These works are not about race and urban uprising. They are about all of us, not the American Dream but the American Real.
Author Bio
Robert Gooding-Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Black Studies at Amherst College. He is author of the forthcoming book Nietszche's Pursuit of Modernism, to be published by Routledge.