TY  - GEN
AB  - This paper elaborates steps towards an approach which can bring about new insights about the
racially coded street violence of July/August 1919 and about related problems in Chicago. Three
interrelated perspectives are integrated: the social construction of race and racism based on racial
projects, the triangular setting (perpetrator-victim-audience/third parties) of social conflict
(including race/racism) and violence, and the study of practices of comparing. In 1919 there was a
widely shared assumption of similarity (‘Gleichartigkeitsannahme’) which naturalized the difference
between two distinct races (‘white’ and ‘negro’). The racial projects studied in this paper
addressed different third parties/audiences. The press was no passive audience but an active third
party which communicated the often localized patterns of racism to translocal audiences. The
racial projects of the report of the Chicago Commission on Race Relations (CCRR) were shaped by
progressive comparisons which focused on urban-based social-political progress and on advanced
masculine rationality. The racial projects in Chicago were massively shaped by practices of comparing
which tried to bring order and stability to a society whose white members felt themselves
threatened through massive war-induced social change.
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.4119/unibi/2943008
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
SN  - 2628-7722
SP  - 28-
TI  - Urban Order and Rationality: Racially Coded Street Violence, Racial Projects and Practices of Comparing in Chicago 1919
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29430083
Y2  - 2024-11-22T07:16:46
ER  -