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    1. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      5/ As in 1967-68, urban discontent is a response to the delegitimation of key institutions, especially government.

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    2. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      6/ As in the long hot summers, many police are themselves (unacknowledged) rioters.

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    3. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      7/ Key differences: The crowds on big city streets today are far more racially diverse today than in 60s. Yes, there were white looters during the long hot summers, but this weekend’s crowds are far more mixed racially than could be imagined fifty years ago.

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    4. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      8/ While protestors in both periods broke into stores and burned buildings. But most 60s looting and burning happened in African American neighborhoods. Mom and pop businesses, including black-owned stores in many cities, were targets, not national chains.

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    5. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      9/ 60s rebels were much less likely to loot and burn central business districts, malls, and stores with a predominantly white clientele than today.

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    6. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      10/ Examples: Philadelphia 1964: North Philly, Columbia Avenue and North Broad. Philadelphia 2020: Center City, Chestnut and Walnut Streets near Rittenhouse Square. Los Angeles 1965: Watts. Los Angeles 2020: Melrose, the Grove Mall, even Rodeo Drive.

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    7. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      11/ Why the shift? We will need more research for a definitive answer, but I have a few hypotheses.

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    8. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      12/ The boundaries of commercial segregation have weakened since the 60s, even if housing and school segregation have persisted, even hardened. We still have shopping while black incidents, but in the 60s malls and upscale shopping districts were nearly all white. Not today.

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    9. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      13/ Neighborhood shopping districts have died off over the last 50 years, especially in places with large non-white populations. In most cities, they are not ecomomically or symbolically important targets for protests anymore.

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    10. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020

      14/ More importantly, I suspect that today we are seeing a new, hybrid form of protest emerging in places like Minneapolis, NYC, Chicago, Philly, et al. It’s a fusion of anger against the police with opposition to global capitalism symbolized in multinational chain stores.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 May 2020
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      There are echoes of Seattle 1999.

      12:54 PM - 31 May 2020
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        1. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 31 May 2020
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          Absolutely.

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