The Precipitants and Underlying Conditions of Race Riots

This article reexamines spontaneity as an important, albeit neglected, mechanism in collective action dynamics, and elaborates on its operation and effects in protest events and social movements. We do not presume that spontaneity is routinely at play in all collective actions. Rather, based on our grounded analysis of historical and ethnographic data, we contend that spontaneity is triggered by certain conditions: nonhierarchical organization; uncertain/ ambiguous moments and events; behavioral/emotional priming; and certain ecological/ spatial factors. We conclude by elaborating why the activation of spontaneous actions matters in shaping the course and character of protest events and movements, and we suggest that spontaneity be resuscitated in the study of collective action and everyday life more generally.

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“…See Lieberson and Silverman (1965) for analysis of precipitants of race riots from 1913 to 1963. 13.…”

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Protest on the Fly

2014

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“…Quantitative examinations of protest and violence in the United States over time include a time series plot (Levy 1968), an interrupted time series analysis (Stohl 1976), several models of stochastic (random) behavior fit to data on violence (Lieberson and Silverman 1965;Spilerman 1970;Midlarsky 1978;Burbeck 1978), and several models of cumulative birth processes (Goldstone 1980;Pritcher, Hamblin, and Miller 1978;Diekmann 1979) that are also fit to data on violence. Quantitative examinations of protest and violence in the United States over time include a time series plot (Levy 1968), an interrupted time series analysis (Stohl 1976), several models of stochastic (random) behavior fit to data on violence (Lieberson and Silverman 1965;Spilerman 1970;Midlarsky 1978;Burbeck 1978), and several models of cumulative birth processes (Goldstone 1980;Pritcher, Hamblin, and Miller 1978;Diekmann 1979) that are also fit to data on violence.…”

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Protest in America: Univariate ARIMA Models of the Postwar Era

Lichbach¹

1985

The Western Political Quarterly

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“…[376] FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO COLLECTIVE RACIAL VIOLENCE Before examining the violence data and the relationship to American war involvement, I will summarily explore two historical factors for their possible effect on large-scale racial violence during war-migration and economics. MIGRATION Migration has been considered an important force in disrupting the social fabric and contributing to racial violence (Lieberson and Silberman, 1965;Rudwick, 1964;Willhelm, 1970: ch. on &dquo;Urbanology mythology&dquo; provide evidence against the migration argument).…”

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A Relationship Between Collective Racial Violence and War

Schaich

1975

Journal of Black Studies

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Racism is a necessary condition for the outbreak of interracial violence. Racism has been with us from the beginning of our experience with slavery and is present today, but collective racial violence fluctuates so as to indicate time-related patterns of high and low intensity and frequency during the twentieth century. Racism has been a constant for over 300 years and cannot of itself explain the fluctuations of racial violence.Collective black-white violence has erupted during the 1960s for the third time this century. In both world wars and in the Vietnam War corresponding outbreaks of racial violence have occurred. The significance of an association between the external violence of war and the collective racial violence is that war may be a factor which precipitates racial violence. It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that the high frequency of collective racial violence during both world wars and the Vietnam War and the low frequency of AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am indebted to Elwin Powell for many of the ideas presented in this paper.

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The Precipitants and Underlying Conditions of Race Riots

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Protest on the Fly

Protest on the Fly

Protest in America: Univariate ARIMA Models of the Postwar Era

A Relationship Between Collective Racial Violence and War

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