Christian Ethical Analysis of the L.A. Riots in 1992: The Media and Institutional Racism
This essay utilizes Reinhold Niebuhr’s theology of the universality of sin to analyze institutional racism, using the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a case study. Contrary to the conventional interpretation of the riots as a conflict between African Americans and Korean Americans, the pervasive instituti...
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