Authors

Joan Schine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1997

Volume

36

Issue

3

Publication Title

Theory into Practice

First Page

170

Last Page

175

Abstract

The sound of gunshots was not particularly unusual in Washington Heights, a section of New York City where drug deals were common and children learned early to be vigilant. But on a late summer day in 1992, the fatal shot came from a police revolver, and it was a Dominican, a drug dealer, who was killed. The ensuing turmoil, born of the immediate crisis but a reflection of the longstanding antagonism between the youth of the neighborhood and the police, soon become a riot. Most of the police in the local precinct were White. The overwhelming majority of the young people were Dominican (Sullivan, 1992).

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Copyright 1997 College of Education, The Ohio State University

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