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The Los Angeles riots of 1992 were America’s first multi-ethnic riots in which African Americans, whites, Latinos and Asian Americans participated as both victims and assailants. According to the records of the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department, 12,545 arrests were made between 6:00 p.m. April 29 and 5:00 a.m. May 5, 1992 — the period of the civil disorder. The racial breakdown of those arrested is as follows: Latinos 45.2 percent, African Americans 41 percent, and whites 11.5 percent. “The fixation on black versus white is outdated and misleading — the Rodney King verdict was merely the match that lit the fuse of the first multiracial class riot in America.”1
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Shlomo Katz (ed.), Negro and Jew: An Encounter in America (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p. 76.
See Edward T. Chang, “Building Minority Coalitions: A Case Study of Korean and African Americans,” Korea Journal of Population and Development, Vol. 21, No.1 (1992), 37–56. On November 1992, the BKA dissolved because it was unable to deal with the volatile issues facing Korean and African American communities. After the Latasha Harlins shooting case, the BKA found it increasingly difficult to promote understanding and coalitions between the two communities.
For more details of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, see Edward T. Chang “America’s First Multiethnic Riots,” in Karin Augilar-San Juan (ed.), The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s (Boston: South End Press, 1994), pp. 101–17.
Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992), p. 195.
See Raphael Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Edna Bonacich, “A Theory of Middleman Minorities,” American Sociological Review, Vol.38 (October 1973), 583–94;
Hubert M. Blalock, Jr, Towards a Theory of Minority Group Relations (New York: John Wiley, 1967).
Edna Bonacich and Tae Hwan Jung, “A Portrait of Korean Small Business in Los Angeles: 1977,” in Eui-Young Yu et al., Koreans in Los Angeles (Los Angeles: Koryo Research Institute, 1982), p. 77.
For more detail see Ivan Light, Ethnic Enterprise in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972).
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Chang, E.T. (1996). African American Boycotts of Korean-Owned Stores in New York and Los Angeles. In: Brass, P.R. (eds) Riots and Pogroms. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24867-4_9
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