The LA gang truce and uprising of 1992 - Davey D & Twilight Bey
An interview with Twilight Bey, a former gang member involved in negotiating the truce, on the LA gang truce and uprising of 1992. This interview was first conducted on the 10-year anniversary of the uprising in April 2002, and was archived at indybay.org.
No justice no peace: an eyewitness account of the LA riots
20 Years Later: the Los Angeles riots, hip-hop, rage and Trayvon Martin
Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun
In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who according to him have been economically marginalized by capitalism but also socially integrated by the spectacle of power and violence, and compares their social dislocation and nihilism with Hannah Arendt's characterization of the preconditions for the mass psychology of totalitarianism ("isolation and the absence of normal social relations").
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