| Black Violence: Political Impact of the 1960''s Riots: Political Impact of the 1960s Riots Subjects: Riots -- United States; Afro-Americans -- Social conditions -- 1964-1975; Economic assistance Domestic -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969; United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974; While many studies of domestic collective violence, especially of the black riots of the 1960s, emphasize the causes of violence, James Button's is a major investigation of the consequences of violence. He not only analyzes how and to what extent the national government responded to the black urban riots, but he also moves toward a theoretical definition of the role of collective violence in a democratic society. In so doing, the author clarifies the utility or disutility of collective violence as a minority group strategy for effecting political change. |