Political
Violence in America
The United States, while considered one of the world's
most stable representative democracies, is a nation that
has endured its share of politically-motivated violence.
From the riots and protests that helped bring about the
American Revolution, to the violence and killings in the
years leading up to the American Civil War, on through to
the turmoil of the 1960s, American political life has
always had a significant amount of violence as a
constrant thread running through the fabric of American
politics.
Below are links and resources on this issue.
Task
Force on Political Violence and Terrorism--The
American Political Science Association
Political
Violence in America--Maps and statitics on political
violence in America
Threats,
violence common reaction to political change--Post
Gazette.com
Commentary on
Political Violence in Modern America
"Civil"
Wars --Terry Newell, Huffington Post
Crying
Wolf: Leftist Hysteria About Political Violence in the
U.S.--2nd Thoughts
Political
Violence in America--Mike Lux, Huffington Post
The
rising threat of political violence in America--Adam
Schwartzbaum's Blog: The In-Specter
Print Sources on
American Political Violence:
Abelmann, Nancy and John Lie 1995. Blue Dreams: Korean
Americans and the Los Angeles Riots. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
Ayers, Edward L. 1984. Vengeance and Justice, Crime
and Punishment in the 19th Century American South. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Foner, Eric. 1988. Reconstruction: American's
Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877. New York: Harper and
Row.
Green, Donald P., Dara Z. Strolovitch, and Janelle S.
Wong. 1998. "Defended Neighborhoods, Integration and
Racially Motivated Crime." American Journal of Sociology
104 (2): 372-403.
Graham, Hugh Davis. 1970. "The Paradox of American
Violence: A Historical Appraisal. " Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science 391:
74-82.
Litwack, Leon F. 1979. Been in the Storm So Long. New
York: Vintage Books.
O'Brien, Gail Williams. 1999. The color of the law:
race, violence, and justice in the post-World War II
South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina
Press.
Olzak, Susan. 1992. The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition
and Conflict. Stanford, CA: Stanford University
Press.
Pinderhughes, Howard. 1993. "The Anatomy of Racially
Motivated Violence in New York City: A Case Study of
Youth in Southern Brooklyn." Social Problems 40 (4):
478-492.
"Racial Violence against Asian Americans." 1993.
Harvard Law Review 106(8): 1926-1943.
Rubinowitz, Leonard S. and Imani Perry. 2002. "Crimes
Without Punishment: White Neighbors' Resistance to Black
Entry." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
92:335-427.
The Southern Poverty Law Center. 1987. "Move-in"
Violence: White Resistance to Neighborhood Integration in
the 1980s.
Sugrue, Thomas J. 1996. The Origins of Urban Crisis,
Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press.
Werner, John M. 1986. Reaping the bloody harvest: race
riots in the United States during the age of Jackson,
1824-1849. New York: Taylor & Francis.
