Revisiting the 1992 Los Angeles Riots: an Analysis of Geographical Perspectives

.......................................................................................................... iv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION.....................................................................1 1.1 Greetings ................................................................................................1 1.2 Outline....................................................................................................2 1.3 Riots and the City of Los Angeles .........................................................4 1.3.1 The 1965 Watts Riots....................................................................5 1.3.2 The 1992 Los Angeles Riots.......................................................12 1.4 Statement of Challenge ........................................................................19 1.4.1 Statistical Methods......................................................................21 1.4.2 Charts and Graphs.......................................................................24 CHAPTER TWO: RIOTS AND MAPS...............................................................30 2.1 Geography and Riots............................................................................30 2.2 The City of Los Angeles and the Riots of 1992...................................32 2.2.1 An Atlas of South Central Los Angeles......................................32 2.2.2 The Civil Order Damage Survey ................................................35 2.2.3 Supplemental Data ......................................................................35 2.2.4 Parameters...................................................................................37 2.2.5 A Bit About the U.S. Census Bureau..........................................41 2.2.6 The Map Sets ..............................................................................42 2.2.6.1 Race and Ethnicity ..........................................................42 2.2.6.2 Structural Damage ..........................................................47 2.3 Maps of the 1965 Watts Riots..............................................................54 CHAPTER THREE: ALTERNATIVES ..............................................................59 3.1 New Cultural Geography .....................................................................59 3.1.1 Carnival.......................................................................................60 3.1.2 Racialized Geographies ..............................................................61 3.1.3 People’s Park ..............................................................................62 3.2 Other Means of Understanding............................................................64 3.3 Waters of a Qualitative River ..............................................................66 3.3.1 Vignette 1....................................................................................68 3.3.2 Vignette 2....................................................................................69 3.3.3 Vignette 3....................................................................................69 3.3.4 Vignette 4....................................................................................70 3.4 Non-Representational Theory..............................................................71 3.4.1 Dance and Riots ..........................................................................76 3.4.2 Critique and Closure ...................................................................77 CHAPTER FOUR: PUBLIC PROTESTS............................................................79 4.1 Riots vs. Public Protests.......................................................................79 4.2 Public Protests......................................................................................81