You are here
FAU Collections » FAU Research Repository » FAU College Collections » Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College » Honors Student Theses
Racial violence
- Date Issued:
- 2006
- Summary:
- This thesis examines recent explanations of racial violence in the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the Oldham Riots of 2001, the French Riots of 2005, and the racial violence of 1992 in Germany. In each case I outline traditional theories claiming that racial violence is caused by competition between ethnic groups for housing, jobs, and cultural identity. These theories may benefit from consideration of the historical elements that have institutionalized racial discrimination in the systematic processes of integration. In conclusion, I argue that the governmental mechanisms of integration; including citizenship models, context of state formation, immigration policy, and nationalist ideology, suggest that the framework of racial prejudice and ethnocentrism may predispose a society to racial conflict.
Title: | Racial violence: examining causation in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Germany. |
104 views
27 downloads |
---|---|---|
Name(s): |
Sylvain, Christine Lynn. Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College |
|
Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Thesis | |
Issuance: | multipart monograph | |
Date Issued: | 2006 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Physical Form: |
electronic electronic resource |
|
Extent: | v, 64 leaves. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | This thesis examines recent explanations of racial violence in the Los Angeles Riots of 1992, the Oldham Riots of 2001, the French Riots of 2005, and the racial violence of 1992 in Germany. In each case I outline traditional theories claiming that racial violence is caused by competition between ethnic groups for housing, jobs, and cultural identity. These theories may benefit from consideration of the historical elements that have institutionalized racial discrimination in the systematic processes of integration. In conclusion, I argue that the governmental mechanisms of integration; including citizenship models, context of state formation, immigration policy, and nationalist ideology, suggest that the framework of racial prejudice and ethnocentrism may predispose a society to racial conflict. | |
Identifier: | 315857456 (oclc), 11577 (digitool), FADT11577 (IID), fau:1311 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
by Christine Lynn Sylvain. Typescript (Photocopy). Thesis (B.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, Honors College, 2006. Bibliography: leaves 58-64. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
|
Subject(s): |
Racism -- United States Racism -- Great Britain Racism -- Germany Ethnocentrism |
|
Held by: | FBoU FAUER | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/11577 | |
Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
Host Institution: | FAU |