Riots and Pogroms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Discourses of Ethnicity, Communalism, and Violence

   • Paul R. Brass

   Pages 1-55

3. Anti-Jewish Violence and Revolution in Late Imperial Russia: Odessa, 1905

   • Robert Weinberg

   Pages 56-88

4. The Pogrom of November 9–10, 1938 in Germany

   • Leonidas E. Hill

   Pages 89-113

5. Divisions at the Center: The Organization of Political Violence at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount/al-haram al-sharif — 1929 and 1990

   • Roger Friedland, Richard D. Hecht

   Pages 114-153

6. Riots and Rituals: The Construction of Violence and Public Space in Hindu Nationalism

   • Peter van der Veer

   Pages 154-176

7. Dharma Yudh: Communal Violence, Riots and Public Space in Ayodhya and Agra City, 1990 and 1992

   • Jayati Chaturvedi, Gyaneshwar Chaturvedi

   Pages 177-200

8. The Anti-Sikh Riots of 1984 in Delhi: Politicians, Criminals, and the Discourse of Communalism

   • Virginia Van Dyke

   Pages 201-220

9. Racial Killing or Barroom Brawl? Multiple Explanations of the Killing of Vincent Chin

   • Yen Le Espiritu

   Pages 221-234

10. African American Boycotts of Korean-Owned Stores in New York and Los Angeles

    • Edward T. Chang

    Pages 235-252

11. Back Matter

    Pages 253-262

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Riots and Pogroms presents comparative studies of riots and pogroms in the twentieth century in Russia, Germany, Israel, India, and the United States, with a comparative, historical, and analytical introduction by the editor. The focus of the book is on the interpretive process which follows after the occurrence of riots and pogroms, rather than on the search for their causes. The concern of the editor and contributors is with the struggle for control over the meaning of riotous events, for the right to represent them properly.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Germany
• India
• Israel
• Judaism
• Korea
• nation
• revolution
• Russia
• USA
• violence

• University of Washington, USA

  Paul R. Brass

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