READING LIST
TITLES

Black Fire: “Riot” and “Revolt” in Los Angeles, 1965 and 1992
(Excerpted from Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California)
Gerald Horne

Fortress L.A.
(Excerpted from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles)
Mike Davis

Policing Raceriotland: A Journey into Racist Policing and Urban Uprising
(Excerpted from Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD)
Max Felker-Kantor

The Year of the Cop: Buying and Selling Law and Order
(Excerpted from Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD)
Max Felker-Kantor

Crack in Los Angeles: Crisis, Militarization, and Black Response to the Late Twentieth-Century War on Drugs
Donna Murch

Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin: A Case Study of Multicultural Female Violence and Justice on the Urban Frontier
Brenda E. Stevenson

Reel Time/Real Justice
(Excerpted from Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising)
Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gary Peller

Revisiting “Black-Korean Conflict” and the “Myth of Special Assistance”: Korean Banks, US Government Agencies, and the Capitalization of Korean Immigrant Small Business in the United States
Tamara K. Nopper

Reading the Writing on the Wall
(Excerpted from Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State)
Jordan T. Camp

Uprising and Repression in L.A.
(Excerpted from Reading Rodney King, Reading Urban Uprising)
An Interview with Mike Davis by the CovertAction Information Bulletin

MAPPING THE 1992 LA RIOTS FROM RODNEY KING TO KOREATOWN
Curbed LA

The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction
Tamara K. Nopper

“Policing Race” – The Media’s Representation of the Los Angeles Riots
(Excerpted from Latino Metropolis)
Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres

“Can you be BLACK and Look at This?”: Reading the Rodney King Video(s)
Elizabeth Alexander

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost: Police Violence and Urban Rebellion Redux
(Excerpted from Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD)
Max Felker-Kantor

A Troubled Corner: the ruined and rebuilt environment of a Central American barrio in post-Rodney King riot Los Angeles
Elana Zilberg

Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Report: Place, Housing, and Racial Wealth Inequality in Los Angeles
Melany De La Cruz, Paul M. Ong, Andre Comandon, William A. Darity Jr., Darrik Hamilton

Examining the LA 1984 Olympic Legacy: Capitalism, Police Violence, & Privatization
NOlympics LA

Police Commission backs a 12% increase in LAPD budget for next year
Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2021