The Los Angeles Riots And The Conflict Between Korean...

With the case study of the Los Angeles riots, they showcase the tensions and violence mainly between Korean Americans and African Americans, and bring into perspective why minority groups might be hostile towards each other. These antagonisms between minority groups in the U.S. have been a product of obstacles and structures placed on them. Some of the problems and structures that have led to antagonism between groups of color have first been with the way race is perceived, mainly in a black and white paradigm. There has also been an avoidance to connect class rather than race as another structure that causes tensions between groups. Tactics from the dominant groups (whites), like divide and conquer has led to tensions between groups that†¦show more content†¦This doesn’t work with interminority relations as Tawa, Suyemoto, and Turiac state because they are framed as oppressed and no minority group has absolute power. As Sexton states, in his article â€Å"Proprietie s of Coalition: Blacks, Asians, and the Politics of Policing,† that the black-white paradigm should be displaced because it does not always work. Sexton argues that â€Å"†¦we may recognize that its purported institutionalization indicates more about the enduring force of anti-blackness than the insistence of black scholars, activists or communities more generally.† Accepting this type of framing the result is disputes amongst minority groups that stereotype each other and invalidate their oppressions, thus resulting in the dominant group benefiting from this. Using the black-white paradigm really misses the complexities of minority relations in connection to the dominant White groups. There is a connection though, on how minority groups see prejudice when they feel like their resources are seen as belonging to a certain group that may have the most power between them. As Tawa, Suyemoto, and Turiac suggest, although no minority group has absolute power some groups may have relative power. Like the example of the â€Å"model minority† given to Asians, may have given them some power over other minority groups, for example Blacks. This helps explain some power dynamics between minority groups that may lead to