Race riot
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"The end of World War II had seen a marked increase in African-Caribbean migrants to Britain. By the 1950s, white working-class "Teddy Boys" were beginning to display hostility towards black families in the area, a situation exploited and inflamed by groups such as Oswald Mosley's Union Movement and other far-right groups such as the White Defence League, who urged disaffected white residents to "Keep Britain White"." |
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A race riot or racial riot is a violent civil disorder (i.e. a riot) in which race is a key factor. The term had entered the English language in the United States by the 1890s. Early use of the term in the United States referred to race riots which were often a dominant culture mob action against individuals or groups of people from other races. Much later, the term came to describe violence and property destruction by racial minority groups often directed at neighborhood business, government representatives and law enforcement agencies perceived as unfairly targeting racial groups. Mob rule, religious intolerance, vigilantism, Jim Crow, lynching, racial profiling, economics, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots. However, political decisions, repression and social hate by national or local levels of government and the larger community directed towards a certain race usually contributes to this type of riot.
See also
- Anti-Armenianism
- Anti-Semitism
- List of race riots
- Pogrom
- Race and crime
- Mass racial violence in the United States
- List of riots
- Ethnic cleansing
- Genocide
- Hep-Hep riots
- Indophobia
- Pogrom
- Violence
- Hep-Hep riots
- Sinophobia
- Xenophobia in South Africa
- Riots and pogroms in Sri Lanka
- Revolution '67 - Documentary about the Newark, New Jersey race riots of 1967
- 1958 Notting Hill race riots
