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Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992
On April 29, 1992 the acquittal of the four police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King sparked one of the angriest uprisings Los Angeles - and perhaps the country - has ever seen. At the ten-year anniversary, we need to remember what happened to us and why.
Geography of Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 is a collection of personal reflections ranging from the provocative insights of award-winning writers, journalists, and musicians, to highly personal essays and interviews of neighbors, friends, and fellow Angelenos whose lives were forever affected by the riot and its aftermath.
Geography of Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 is a collection of personal reflections ranging from the provocative insights of award-winning writers, journalists, and musicians, to highly personal essays and interviews of neighbors, friends, and fellow Angelenos whose lives were forever affected by the riot and its aftermath.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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May 3, 2021
This is a powerful collection of essays, narratives, and poems stemming from the Los Angeles Riots of 1992. In first person accounts, you hear from college students, musicians, actors, shop-owners, every day Americans. Each chapter feels like a minidocumentary from a person who was in LA at the time or was, in some way, personally impacted by the events. Geography of Rage is an amazing artifact from a variety of vantage points and perspectives from April 29, 1992.
April 2, 2008
This is an anthology Jervey Tervalon and I edited, published in 2002, ten years after the acquittal of officers involved in the Rodney King beating sparked the 1992 LA Riots. The anthology consists of personal experiences and opinions by writers in and around the greater LA area.
Promoted as follows:
Tenth Anniversary reflections on the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles. On April 29, 1992, the acquittal of the four police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King sparked a violent, 3-day riot. At the ten-year anniversary, we need to remember what happened and why. Neither journalistic nor academic, this is the only book about the riots to present diverse ethnic, geographic, and socio-economic personal writing, including Anne Beatts, Wanda Coleman, Kitty Felde, Lynell George, Gar Anthony Haywood, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Lax, Gary Phillips, David Ulin, Oscar Villaon, Elizabeth Wong. and others
Promoted as follows:
Tenth Anniversary reflections on the 1992 uprising in Los Angeles. On April 29, 1992, the acquittal of the four police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King sparked a violent, 3-day riot. At the ten-year anniversary, we need to remember what happened and why. Neither journalistic nor academic, this is the only book about the riots to present diverse ethnic, geographic, and socio-economic personal writing, including Anne Beatts, Wanda Coleman, Kitty Felde, Lynell George, Gar Anthony Haywood, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Lax, Gary Phillips, David Ulin, Oscar Villaon, Elizabeth Wong. and others
May 27, 2009
Not really a book about the 1992 riots, but a rather fascinating profile of Angelenos (of many different sorts), with the riots as a backdrop.
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