James Theodore Venable. Working Paper. “
The Watts Riots Through the Lens of Johan Galtung's Typologies of Violence ”.
AbstractUnequivocally, this riot provides a classic illustration of Johan Galtung's typologies of violence, the first being direct violence that is manifested during the projected riots on the evening news, i.e., people causing physical injury to other people. However, as is often the case, this direct violence does not stand by itself but is rather rooted in structural violence, which creates an unfavorable nearly impossible economic and political climate for African Americans in the Watts neighborhood to live comfortably.