[Date] [Name] Clash of Colors: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots [course number] The 1992 Los Angeles Riot is considered as one of the most violent civil uprisings in the United States, leaving in its wake more than 50 deaths, thousands injured, and around $1 billion in damage. For this paper, the both the Collective Behavior Studies and Collective Action approach ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM-1", "itemData" : { "author" : [ { "dropping-particle" : "", "family" : "Smithson", "given" : "Anthony M.", "non-dropping-particle" : "", "parse-names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : [ [ "2015" ] ] }, "title" : "Lecture Notes: Riots", "type" : "article" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=058b6ed9-d655-49c7-92f0-405741baf448" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(Smithson 2015)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(Smithson 2015)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(Smithson 2015)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json" }(Smithson 2015) would be used to analyze how this riot came about. Though the usual view is that this was a simple conflict between Korean-Americans operating their businesses in South Central Los Angeles and African-American residents, that turned haywire, events surrounding the riot shows that its roots lay deeper. After viewing the documentary of the 1992 riot, I have realized that conf...