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9780801473050

The Truce

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801473050

  • ISBN10:

    0801473055

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-05-11
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Summary

This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen peo

Author Biography

Karen Umemoto is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Urban Conflict in Multicultural Cities
1(14)
Understanding the Morphology of Conflict
15(17)
The Geography of Multiple Publics in Venice
32(21)
Law Enforcement Policy and the Oakwood Plan
53(32)
The Racialization of a Gang War
85(34)
Firefighters: Suppression from Without
119(24)
Mediators: Negotiation from Within
143(27)
Transforming Racial Conflict
170(27)
Notes 197(16)
References 213(14)
Index 227

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