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The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots Stevenson, Brenda (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)
The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots
Stevenson, Brenda (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles)
In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Stevenson explores the long-simmering resentment within LA's black community that ultimately erupted in April 1992 by focusing on an preceding event that encapsulated the growing racial and social polarization in the city over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s: the 1991 shooting of a fifteen-year old African American girl, Latasha Harlins, by a Korean grocer who suspected Harlins of shoplifting.
448 pages, 20 halftone illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 1, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190231019 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Genre | Interdisciplinary Studies > Law Studies |
| Pages | 448 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 157 × 30 mm · 576 g |
| Language | English |