Civil racism : the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion and the crisis of racial burnout / Lynn Mie Itagaki.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

xviii, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The 1992 Los Angeles crisis -- Part I. Racial civility -- Model family values and sentimentalizing the crisis -- In/civility, with colorblindness and equal treatment for all -- The territorialization of civility, the spatialization of revenge -- Part II. Counterdiscourse of civility -- At the end of tragedy -- The media spectacle of racial disaster -- Epilogue: Lives that matter.