La Haile And Balibar Summary

A consequence of this massacre is the enhanced mistrust of the police force in the favelas. This is because the people of the favela are afraid that the police could come into their homes at anytime and shot everyone, or that the police could do anything they want without repercussions for it, while the favela residents could not do anything unless they wanted to get

Culture in urban communities, also referred to as inner-cities, are growing increasingly violent. In the article, The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson, he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors, parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture.

Caucasian person from France but they will have different ethnic backgrounds. Each will have different traditions and most likely speak different languages as a result of their different ethnic backgrounds.

After spending a few months in France, she begins to realize it isn’t quite as beautiful as first imagined. While working at the Villa of Green Happiness she realizes that she is trapped within the compound and has nobody to talk in this country. She also realizes that her skin color is a burden on her and therefore gets treated like an object by her employers rather than a human being. . “The venom was poisoning her heart” (140). In Africa, white skin is rare and exclusive to the wealthy but in France its black skin that is rare but is no way associated to wealth.

Violence in the suburbs is never not addressed in the book. In the book, it starts out by giving us an idea of people in the suburbs purchasing dogs and getting them to attack on any person that may be in the area of them, even the little kids who are walking around the area. The people who are living in the suburb are always trying to start a confrontation and be involved in fights. When two ladies started fighting in the book there seems to be no residents who care about it, they seem to be used to all of the violence that goes on in the suburbs. The citizens of the suburb are immune to the violence because they have no other way of being a part of society.

Does the sound of the city ring a bell as a place filled with violence and gruesome stories? That’s what I have always noticed with the reports involving the city of Oakland. To news media everything has to have just the right amount of darkness to it in order for that news channel to have a good amount of viewers. Like it or not we all have that little dark side within us that is more curious and interested to see something terrible happen in news reports; because for some reason it’s entertaining to us. During my critical thinking class with my professor Larry Salomon, I learned that this is why most news channels like to show gruesome and tragic stories more often, because we as human beings find some sort of interest and satisfaction hearing about these stories; and this makes work for news channels more easier to gain more viewers. Some people are more eager to learn about a tragic story unlike the other reports that have a more hopeful and cheerful description. How is this linked to violence in Oakland? News reporters know that Oakland is the place to go when you need a story that will help you get viewers. I have talked to some residents in my community of Oakland and they stated that they were tired of being the notebook of bad stories to be told on live television; the only reason why violence seems to continue in this community is because reporters always point the finger at the city as being a place filled with

“With no police force in California’s cities, criminals from all over flocked to San Francisco.” (Saffer,1) This meant that the criminals could commit their crimes with little fear of punishment. The criminals felt as if they could steal someone’s belongings, and not get caught then they would be fine. So, that’s why many people went over there. The San Francisco Gang was a group from New York. They always took gold, money, food, etc. But, after awhile another group of people from San Francisco put them on trial, they were then put in prison for 10 years. However, there wasn’t any prisons they could stay in so, they just frightened the gang and they never committed a crime from then on. Along with the San Francisco Gang, another gang came and started causing more trouble again. That gang repeatedly stole from stores, and homes taking everything they could. Until a group of 180 men called “Committee of Violence” they captured and hung some of the members of the gang, and threatened all the others. It must have been horrible without safety from criminals but as more cities grew, more prisons were

Mack and Nelson begin their essay by taking a look at the “borderline psychotic” society of Vancouver (Mack and Nelson 209). The essay discusses the alienated community the city has become along with the foolishness of the youth. This information soon becomes misleading as the blame from the riot is dismissed from the city and is placed elsewhere. The outlook of the frenzy is taken from a much more expansive approach and this is evident in the statement: “It’s a problem that, as always, starts from the very top” (210). Mack and Nelson note that rather than the rioter’s being the problem, the economy and politicians are at fault

Elie remembers, “‘The time has come… you must leave all this…’ The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples” (16). The Hungarian police had been edict and in charge of everyone there. Yitskhok had a similar experience to this when he is standing outside his window and he watches people get beaten. Another example of a similarity is when they stayed in the ghettos. Elie and Yitskhok stayed in the ghettos for quite some time. Elie writes in the book that “The chaos here was even greater than in the large ghetto… [Elie] visited the rooms that had been occupied by my uncle Mendel’s family” (20). Yitskhok also stays in a ghetto, and he wrote in his diary about how in the ghetto where he was it was a mess with people falling; some people’s stuff even fell out of their bundles. Finally, some

In Anna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992” there are a lot of characters who have different thoughts of what happened and why it happened. The LA uprisings happened after the video of a black young man being severely beaten by four white policemen was released to the media for everyone to see. During the uprisings people were getting shot by stray bullets and businesses were being destroyed, especially Korean stores. It was said to be one of the worst riots in U.S. history.

In 1992 the city of Los Angeles was one of our nation’s largest cities. It had an estimated population of over 9 million.1 The city had been in a deteriorating state for several years. There also had been tension growing between the citizens and the police for nearly the last 30 years. This had a lot to do with riots that occurred in Los Angeles back in the 1960’s.2

Social Conflict Theory: The Social Conflict Theory states that people who are put down tend to stay down and be dictated by the force keeping them down. In the impoverished city in which this movie takes place in we see that people are very needy and have no dignity. It is in towns like this that many gangs find their burrows grounds and infiltrate these shanty towns to begin their cartels and reigns of terror. Here the people do not like the MS13 gang, but cannot do anything about it because they will be killed instantly. MS13 treat the people like dirt and freely rob, rape, and kill the people whenever they feel like it.

Some of the French say they weren’t aware of the Roundup (though living across the street from the stinking stadium), some admit to a vague awareness but “What could you do?” But some are courageous in their opposition to inhumanity. Sarah and her co-escapee find their way to the rural home of a couple with grandchildren Sarah's age, the Dufaures, who at first try to “avoid trouble” but then take them in and bravely brazen it out with the police in order to call in a physician to attend the other little girl who is, however, beyond saving. And -- since Sarah is unstoppable in her attempt to get back to her little brother -- the Dufaures accompany her to Paris, risking their own arrest, in a great train scene in which the police share their compartment and the conductor comes looking for everybody’s transit papers. And what happens when Sarah gets back to the old apartment and the locked wardrobe … ?

Violence seems to be a nationwide phenomenon. Almost all aspects of the Colombian population experience some degree of violence. Almost everybody is a potential victim; violence does not prefer a particular socioeconomic class, profession, race, or

Another group of people that we must become acquainted with as well is the ethnic-French majority or in another more exclusive term, the français de souche. It is not quite clear where the term français de souche was actually coined, but the general consensus is that the term signified people of pure French ethnicity with multiple generations of ethnic-French ancestors (Décimo, 164). This term has multiple implications behind it. In addition to underlining the characteristics of a français de souche, it also serves as an exclusive term. While it does has requirements that people must meet to be considered a français de souche the application of the term is arbitrary. They are usually Caucasian in origin, speaks standard French, and look the