The Processing of Racial Crisis in America
The Processing of Racial Crisis in America
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美国种族危机的处理
DOI:
10.1177/003232927600600103
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发表时间:
1976
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
D. J. Olson
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作者:
M. Lipsky;D. J. Olson
THE focus of this paper is on elite responses to the black riots of the 1960s.1 We call it &dquo;the processing of racial crisis&dquo; because we observe in the actions of public officials and interactions of dominant political institutions an elite-centered process through which the demands implicit in the riots were first diminished in significance and then mediated through ad hoc commissions and existing political institutions to minimize their political impact. Since every political claim on the society must be received as a demand if it is to be responded to, we argue that the liberal response to the riots may be interpreted as &dquo;washing out&dquo; or negating their political content even while appearing