Abstract
The Los Angeles riots of 1992 were America’s first multi-ethnic riots in which African Americans, whites, Latinos and Asian Americans participated as both victims and assailants. According to the records of the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department, 12,545 arrests were made between 6:00 p.m. April 29 and 5:00 a.m. May 5, 1992 — the period of the civil disorder. The racial breakdown of those arrested is as follows: Latinos 45.2 percent, African Americans 41 percent, and whites 11.5 percent. “The fixation on black versus white is outdated and misleading — the Rodney King verdict was merely the match that lit the fuse of the first multiracial class riot in America.”1KeywordsYork TimeAfrican American YouthAfrican American CommunitySouth CentralKorean ImmigrantThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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