Reading the Riddle

Even as the Los Angeles riot was quelled, a war of recrimination erupted. Local and state officials began a series of investigations, while newspapers, opinion journals, and radio networks avidly covered the story in its aftermath, trying to account for the unrest on the home front. Governor Earl Wa...

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Published inZoot Suit pp. 131 - 156
Main Author Peiss, Kathy
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 23.05.2011
University of Pennsylvania Press
Subjects
African American culture
African American studies
African Americans
American minorities
American studies
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Business
Clothing industry
Consumer goods industries
Criminal psychology
Criminology
Ethnic groups
Ethnography
Ethnology
Hispanic Americans
Human behavior
Industrial sectors
Industry
Language
Language acts
Linguistics
Manufacturing industries
Psychology
Race riots
Riddles
Riots
Social psychology
Suits
Violence
Wordplay
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Summary:Even as the Los Angeles riot was quelled, a war of recrimination erupted. Local and state officials began a series of investigations, while newspapers, opinion journals, and radio networks avidly covered the story in its aftermath, trying to account for the unrest on the home front. Governor Earl Warren immediately appointed a citizens’ committee to study the violence, the Los Angeles County grand jury issued a set of findings and recommendations, and the state government’s Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California held hearings. A host of local organizations also put out reports. A number of these studies probed
ISBN:0812243374
9780812243376
DOI:10.9783/9780812204599.131