Riot Grrrl Movement Research Paper

Among the copious amounts of race riots arising in many parts of the United States, the Chicago race riot is the most recognizable. On July 27, 1919, a black boy named Eugene Williams was stoned by whites and drowned in the 29th street beach after accidentally swimming into white claimed territory. While this angered African Americans, the refusal by police to arrest the offenders of the attack infuriated them even more. The incident caused a full blown race riot, leaving 23 blacks and 15 whites dead, 537 people injured, and 1,000 black families homeless over a 13 period. In Washington D.C., four whites were killed along with two blacks, however, in Phillips County, Arkansas, 25 African Americans and 5 whites were declared officially dead,

Another brutal race riot was the Tulsa Race riot of 1921. On May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland, a 19-year old african-american shoe shiner, entered an elevator with Sarah Page, a 17-year-old white elevator operator. Rowland accidentally stepped on her foot or grabbed her to catch himself from falling. After screaming, police were called to arrest Rowland. He managed to flee but was arrested the next day. Newspaper articles and widespread rumors caused people to form a lynch mob. The court case  was held the next day on May 31, 1921. While Rowland was being tried, many white supremacists surrounded the courthouse waiting to lynch him. At around 10pm, shots were fired, which started the beginning of the riot. African-Americans, some veterans of WWI,

When you think of Oklahoma what do you think of ? Do you think of red dirt, the dust bowl, the OKC Thunder team? I bet you don't think of riots. Yes of course many states experienced riots but the Oklahoma Tulsa Riot was considered one of the worst urban conflicts in U.S history. I'm pretty sure you’ve never heard of it because it is largely overlooked in Oklahoma’s school history books and lessons.

One thing is for sure, we'll never get over this hump if we continue referring to each other with negativity and hatred. Rodney King, a black man, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD officers. At their criminal trial more than a year later, all four police officers were acquitted when the jury could not reach a verdict. This result sparked outrage about racism across the country, especially in South Central Los Angeles. Where large groups of blacks took to the streets, in what became known as the 1992 Los Angeles riots. was a construction dump truck driver. On the first day of the rioting, Denny was attacked by four men, pulled from his International Road Tractor and brutally beaten, sustaining serious head trauma and other injuries.

Black men had to be careful with women. They couldn't look at women in the eye or whistle at them because they would get hanged. There was an assault in Rosewood a black man got into a White House and assaulted a woman she wasn't hurt badly. Then the white women husband started a riot with white men to go and kill all black people that they see. The riot started to burn down the buildings that are owed by the black people. There was one women that ran out of a burning building was shot in the jaw and took it right off. People didn't want to go outside to the riot so they hid under the burning buildings. A group of blacks were barracked in a building while the whites were firing rounds after rounds in the building. To this day no one knows

The Las Angeles Chamber of Commerce decided on a firm approach to the unruly act of the citizens of Watts. The mayor of LA called upon over 4,000 members of the California National Guard to aid in the resistance of the spread of destruction throughout the city. The national guard were eventually able control the mobs of people and restore order to the streets. There were many law enforcement officers injured while taking part in helping out the Las Angeles Police Department control the devastation.

Before the 1960s, American women were contained within a rut that hindered them from living equally among American men. According to Dixon (1977), women had been without a voice to articulate the injustice and brutality of women’s place and without instrumentality to fight against their exploitation and oppression for nearly forty years. However, “[from] the late 1960s into the 1980s there was a vibrant women’s movement in the United States” (Epstein, 2001). This movement, fueled by feminism, promised drastic improvement in the lives of American women and also promised to “[…] equalize the status of all women” (Dixon, 1977). Due to the uplifting wave of the 1970s women’s movement, females in America anxiously awaited the freedom to live as

While my wife and I were watching the rioting going on in Baltimore Maryland, we asked each other why it has come to this. Having a good friend who lives there and was very close to the riots it was troubling to see this so close to someone that we know. When we discussed this with her together on Facebook that night I learned that there was a lot of great things going on within their community right before the rioting started. There were church members and community leaders going door to door in the neighborhoods inviting everyone to different churches so they can peacefully approach the issues in their city. The news channels that was covering these events unfold: CNN, FOXNEWS and NBC News all were showing the negative outcomes and the rioting.

It was a time of long hair and stealth window escapes at the midnight hour; a time of skipping class, anti-establishment sentiment spewing forth from my foul, juvenile, remorseless mouth. I was mad at the world on the grounds that I felt as though I had been dealt a lousy hand in this life. In my infinite teenage wisdom, I had convinced myself if I could not everything my way, I would set the world ablaze and watch it burn. Full of aggressive energy, anger was the emotion with which I chose to express myself. Naturally, I found fuel for the fire in a band named Rage against the Machine. Front-man Zach de la Rocha put the emotions I was experiencing into a lyrical poetic, militant, rap-core metal form. It was unlike anything I had ever heard before: pure, intellectual, and most of all, unfiltered. Initially, I was drawn to Rage because of their sound and musical talent, with their unparalleled ability to blend various genres of music and produce something authentic in a world of simulacra. On the other hand, I had little knowledge of events, names, and issues that this band was bringing to my attention: real-life sociological issues like economic inequality, political prisoners held captive in our own country, brute force control, and the reality that freedom is a hoodwink illusion. These are topics that I have evolved to feel passionately about and of which I wish others were more conscious and aware. Subject matters that are so heinous that one does not actually desire or

Zack de la Rocha was born Jan. 12, 1970, in Long Beach- California. Parents Roberto and Olivia. After parents parted ways, de la Rocha initially split his time between his Mexican-American father. A muralist in the group (Los Four), and his German-Irish mother- a doctoral candidate at the University of California, After his father began to exhibit signs of mental illness, destroying artwork and praying and fasting nonstop, Zack de la Rocha lived exclusively with his mother in Irvine. In the 1970s the Orange County suburb was nearly all white.Zack de la Rocha told Rolling Stone magazine in 1999 how humiliated he felt when his teacher used the racially offensive term “wetback” great his classmates laugh. “I remember sitting there about to explode.

I think it positively impacts our society, because we have the right to do peaceful protests whenever we want. If were peacefully resisting a certain law that we don't feel like should be enforced we cant get in trouble by the law. Unless it puts others in harms way then we can have the possibility to get in trouble for it.

The Nika Riots began in 532 AD , when fans of different teams sparked conflict between each other. Religious differences intensified the conflicts, causing half of the city to be burned and destroyed, killing tens of thousands of people, making it the most violent riot in the history of Byzantium. The two fan groups were represented by the colors green and blue. Green symbolized monophysitism and the lower classes while blue symbolizes orthodoxy the upper classes. However, both sides believed that city officials had been too harsh in putting down the previous riot of Hippodrome fans.

Following the life of Kathleen Hanna, the film The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson, 2013, UK) the viewer gets an insight into the beginning and advance of the feminist punk Riot Grrrl movement. Alongside the development of postmodernism, identity politics arose in importance as a way to challenge the increase in social alienation which emerged as a result of industrialism and that was widely accepted as a reality in modernism. The content of punk as a music genre confronts the elitism created by industrialisation and the diminishing number of corporations providing mass media. By rejecting mainstream content and forming close communities based on a shared identity–such as being a woman oppressed by the patriarchy–Kathleen Hanna and her first band Bikini Kill recognized the “very foundations of social structure and the means of theorizing social relations and culture.” It was a reaction to being “starved to death, culturally”.

“That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” is forever enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. Women’s efforts to realize these words have created a group of second wave Feminists that seem to have created an intolerant and oppressive atmosphere towards women who wish to achieve these goals through more traditional roles and beliefs. These women have been labeled “conservative” and have become “The Other’s” in popular culture. “Anne Marie Slaughter, who embodied the feminist example of a successful woman but decided to pursue a more traditional family role, discusses in her article “Why Women still can’t have it all” how she fell victim to the same ideological scenario that threatens women’s progress today. Furthermore, Sheryl Gay Stolberg’s January 18, 2017, New York Times article, “Views on Abortion Strain Calls for Unity at Women’s March on Washington,” demonstrates the polarization and intolerance of the feminist ideology towards conservative values. Conservative Women, that may choose to pursue happiness by assuming traditional roles are increasingly isolated in American Society because of the expectations to live progressive feminist lifestyles. The oppression of conservative women has become commonplace because of the feminist intolerance of a woman’s right to pursue her own happiness. Additionally, the exclusion of conservative values from the feminist agenda has

My themed research project will centre its focus upon the link between Riot Grrrl and its relation to Third-Wave Feminism. Primarily I aim to analyse Riot Grrrl’s music scene, but also its subculture mentioning its DIY punk ethic, political activism and most importantly its influential Zine network. However the purpose of this report is to demonstrate a grounded understanding in three research methodologies and how I will apply each one in regards to my own project. Firstly I’ll investigate the advantages of an Instrumental Case Study, looking at how it proliferates, rather than narrows a given field of study. Secondly I will delve into Symbolic Interactionism referring to some influential figures involved