{"product_id":"when-whites-riot-sheila-smith-mckoy-9780299173944","title":"When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a bold work that cuts across racial, ethnic, cultural, and national boundaries, Sheila Smith McKoy reveals how race colors the idea of violence in the United States and in South Africa--two countries inevitably and inextricably linked by the central role of skin color in personal and national identity.\u003cbr\u003e Although race riots are usually seen as black events in both the United States and South Africa, they have played a significant role in shaping the concept of whiteness and white power in both nations. This emerges clearly from Smith McKoy's examination of four riots that demonstrate the relationship between the two nations and the apartheid practices that have historically defined them: North Carolina's Wilmington Race Riot of 1898; the Soweto Uprising of 1976; the Los Angeles Rebellion in 1992; and the pre-election riot in Mmabatho, Bhoputhatswana in 1994. Pursuing these events through narratives, media reports, and film, Smith McKoy shows how white racial violence has been disguised by race riots in the political and power structures of both the United States and South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e The first transnational study to probe the abiding inclination to \"blacken\" riots, \u003ci\u003eWhen Whites Riot\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the connection between racial violence--both the white and the \"raced\"--in the United States and South Africa, as well as the social dynamics that this connection sustains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheila Smith McKoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299173941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299173944\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.04w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2001 pg. 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 78","brand":"Sheila Smith McKoy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130102313215,"sku":"9780299173944","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3fccee33-436d-47db-a51e-55e29b9831ab.jpg?v=1687467572","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/when-whites-riot-sheila-smith-mckoy-9780299173944","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}