From Rodney King to George Floyd: The Contemporary History of Ethnic Conflicts in Policing the United States of America
Year: 2025
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The history of the African-American minority of the United States is one of turmoil and oppression.Based on their historical struggle for equal rights in the American society, the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement should have brought an era of equality and justice for the African-American community in the diverse American society.Yet based on the heavily racist history of criminal drug enforcement in the United States, it is to no surprise that Richard Nixon's administration launched the War on Drugs immediately after the Civil Rights Movement ended successfully, and Martin Luther King was assassinated, after a decade of social unrest.The drug war disguised police incentives for the effective suppression of the African-American minority, who were then greatly stricken by the 1980s crack epidemic and unforgiving, biased sentencing, leading to mass incarceration disproportionately affecting their communities by the 1990s.The Los Angeles Riots of 1992 were a result of a new era of ethnic conflicts when video evidence exposed the remnants of the centuries-long injustices that are still prevalent in the society.Ethnic minorities, black people in particular, continue to be suppressed in the contemporary era, by disproportionate and excessive policing, occasionally resulting in a controversy of global magnitude.While Barack Obama's Presidency from 2008 signifies the biggest milestone for African-American social equality since Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement,
Source: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Author: Pesenyánszki, Bence
Language: Hungarian
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7140809201
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