Riots and Pogroms Robin Holt The Task of Cultural Critique

The Task of Cultural Critique maps the contours of an emerging materialist critique that contributes toward a critical social and cultural consciousness

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Riots and Pogroms Robin Holt The Task of Cultural CritiqueDuring the Los Angeles riots of 1992, many Korean American businesses were looted and burned to the ground. Although nearly half of the looters arrested were Latinos, the media portrayed this aspect of the riots more in terms of the on going conflicts between Korean Americans and African Americans. In another part of the world in 1984, the violence which ensued after the assassination of India's Indira Gandhi was portrayed by officials and state