Reviews of articles from periodicals and specialized journals here and abroad
. -Reading the LA. Riot
A Survey of Recent Articles

The fires were still smoldering in South-Central Los Angeles last May when the debate about the riot's underlying causes commenced. At the root of the burning and killing and looting of April 29-May 3, 1992, the Bush administration maintained, were the failed Great Society pro- grams of the 1960s. On the contrary, asserts writer Mike Davis in the Nation (June...