The Notting Hill Race Riots 1958
Source Based
Source A is a piece from an article which appeared in Searchlight
Magazine in 1999. The author is trying to convey that the Notting Hill
race riots were a turning point in race relations in Britain.
This source was written by Gary Macfarlane who is most likely
anti-Nazi as he wrote this article for an anti-Nazi magazine, this
fact establishes that he is for race relations and immigration but
might exaggerate how bad his right wing oppositions are. Another fact
about this source is that it was written in 1999, over 40 years after
the riots so he might have hindsight or evidence that would make this
source more accurate. It is written in a powerful tone as it links the
race riots to Hitler, one of the most racist men in history. In my
opinion, the author wrote this article because he wanted people to
know that it was not the whole of the British population that was
racist but only some white and Nazi minorities and that black people,
mostly youths, were starting to fight back to these minorities after
years of torment.
I know that in most of the late 1950's race relations in Britain were
astonishingly poor. The British white population just could not accept
foreigners coming and taking their jobs, houses and even women. For
example, in 1958 a journalist interviewed a group of young white men,
the conclusion from these men was that West Indians are liars and
can't be trusted. Another example is Sam King, ex-mayor of Lambeth,
who came over on the 'Windrush' said that 'There is racism' but the
fact that he was a mayor of a British county, with mostly white
people, questions this. So there were white people who tried to
prevent racism like the woman on the bus in Source A. For example,
there was an Anti-National front demonstration in Manchester, the
photo of this showed mostly white people taking part. Also there were
many speeches from important people that supported immigration e.
The author points out that it was an issue of “white resistance” rather than racism that played a role in the violence of the protests. I believe that this is a contradictory statement. What Formisano calls “white resistance” is the violent reaction to the
As it was stated in the book, many factors led up to the race riots of 1919. The single incident was a highpoint. It more or less triggered all of the actions and feelings that were preceded in the years leading up to the riot. It is amazing how the differences of a race can change in a few years. Also the importance of little factors that can lead up to becoming huge and having great implications on actions. For blacks and whites both the riot was just a built up accumulation of hostility that has been going on for quite some time. One thing can be said though that the Chicago incidents seem to be the more ruthless and aggressive when compared to others. It may have been because of the blacks’ resiliency not to lie down and to fight back. A lot of the time it causes even more hostility to brew when compared to a nonviolent approach. Nevertheless, the Chicago riots and the incidents that led up to it were monumental in status.
Chicago Riots Have you ever felt as if your government is doing the wrong thing? During the Democratic National Convention in 1968, an estimate of 5-7K protesters were not happy with the results on what was happening in the government. So a group called Yippies started an organized protest. They started to have riots in places like Chicago, where soon after the police came in and started to relentlessly beat the protesters with billy clubs.
A Look Into the Chicago Race Riots The Civil War was fought over the “race problem,” to determine the place of African-Americans in America. The Union won the war and freed the slaves. However, when President Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, a hopeful promise for freedom from oppression and slavery for African-Americans, he refrained from announcing the decades of hardship that would follow to obtaining the new “freedom”. Over the course of nearly a century, African-Americans would be deprived and face adversity to their rights.
Even though whites and blacks protested together, not all of them got punished in the same ways. Even though it wasn’t folderol committed by either race, racists saw it as this and would do anything to keep segregation intact. Sometimes, the whites would be shunned, by society, and not hurt physically. While the blacks, on the other hand, were brutally kille...
Bobo, L. (1999). microfoundations of a sociological approach to racism and race relations. Prejudice as group position, J. Soc. Issues 55:445–72.
The Watts Riots was a race riot that took place in Los Angeles in August 11th through the 17th in 1965. The Watts Riot, which screamed and acted violently for six days which ended with about forty million dollars worth of damage, resulting to be the largest and most expensive city-based fighting against authority of the Civil Rights time in history. The riot helped from the event on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a black traveler, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. Minikus. Strained forces between police officers and the crowd erupted in a violent exchange. The outbreak of brutal rebellion that followed Frye's arrest immediately touched off a large riot centered in the commercial section of the riot, a deeply extremely poor African American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. For many days, rioters burned everything in sight and robbed and damaged department stores, grocery stores, and anything they could damage. Over the course of the six days, over 14,000 California National Guard troops were made ready for action in South Los Angeles and a curfew zone including ...
If a person want a peaceful protest, then sit at home and use social media to protest and wait for change. However, violent protest raises awareness and get the issue resolved much quicker than just holding hands and chanting. Violent Protest shows the anger and frustration of the person or people. It also shows how people are willing to risk their life by standing by something they believe in. When violence is used during a protest it gets the point across much quicker. Violence cannot be ignored and it forces the authorities or whomever to take notice.
Waskow, Arthur I. “The 1919 race riots [microform]: a study in the connections between conflict and violence/Arthur I Waskow.” Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1963.
On June 28, 1969, an event occurred that was to be the start of one of the most powerful movements in US history. On that Friday in June, the New York police force raided a popular bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall Inn because it was suspected of operating without a liquor license. Raids usually went on undisturbed by people involved, but during this raid the area around the inn exploded into fierce protest. The repercussions and multiple disputes that resulted from the initial raid would come to be known as the Stonewall Riots.
In a contemporary sense, however, racism is the claim that racism does not exist. The new ideal of colorblindness serves to promote niceness politics. The refusal to acknowledge the pervasiveness of racism is the new racism. Society promotes the use of politically correct terms and the idea of equality when the mentality of racism is far from extinct. The act of even recognizing race, of recognizing the mental associations with race, is in fact racism. This state of neutrality is a luxury only the privileged can access. This impartiality is the exertion of power by the racially privileged and is increasingly destructive towards the ‘other’.
The Tulsa race riot changed the course of American history by actively expressing African American views on white supremacy. Before the events of the Tulsa race riot African Americans saw the white community taking justice into their own hands. Black citizens of Tulsa stood up against this sort of white mob. This escaladed into the Tulsa race riot. The Tulsa race riot and its effects weighed heavily upon the African Americans of this era.
Another example of why blacks are overrepresented, was with their involvement with the Brixton riots. According to statistics by the Metropolitan Police, it showed that around 79% of robberies and 83% of offences of theft were carried out by black people. Solomos 1988 :107. These statistics were heavily reported by the media which attracted the attention of the public that created a moral panic of the ‘growing problem’ of the link between black people and crime. The reaction towards black criminality was a growing panic however Gilroy argued
Although it was not right for the University of Oklahoma to remove students from the school for their racist Chant, I feel that it was absolutely necessary. I feel that it was necessary because for example, when you walked out the house each day as a kid you were a representation of your parents/guardian. Same goes for the students and faculty at Oklahoma University, when students leave that campus, they are an epitome of their school. When they started chanting jovially about lynching black people, that's when it becomes inappropriate and unacceptable.
Today, there is racial tension all around the world. Racial tension means the feeling that exists when people do not trust and be aggressive to each other. In Malaysia, racial tension has deepened recently. The Indian government has released an advisory for its foreign students that studying in Australia which showed that racial tension appeared around the White and Indian (“MEA issues travel advisory to Indian students in Aus”, 2010). Racial tension between the Han and Uighur communities in Xinjiang, China was enhanced in July 2009. There are several factors that causes racial tension to happen such as religion topic, government policy, prejudice and discrimination.