| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures. By Sheila Smith McKoy. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii, 170 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-299-17390-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-299-17394-1.)

When Whites Riot by Sheila Smith McKoy pioneers a novel interpretive reversal. Contrary to accepted accounts of racial disorders in the United States and South Africa, where "race riot" acts as code for black people carrying out violence against white people and/or white property, McKoy documents adequately and argues persuasively to assert the notion of "white riot." The latter is really the correct descriptor of interracial violence. Specifically, there exists a causal relation between white privilege and racial violence, because whites seek to subvert black economic and political power. Thus wealthy whites play the race card to solidify the allegiance of poor whites.

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