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Name: Siddharth Chandra
Email: schandra at pitt.edu
Institution: University of Pittsburgh

Co-author: Angela Williams-Foster
GSPIA, Wesley W. Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Title: The "Revolution of Rising Expectations," Relative Deprivation, 
and the Urban Racial Disturbances of the 1960s

Internet Address of abstracted work: not available

By mail:
3R25 Posvar Hall
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of 
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Language: English

Abstract:
The economic conditions associated with the urban race riots in U.S. 
cities in the late 1960s are analyzed. A formal model of relative 
deprivation, based on the "Revolution of Rising Expectations" 
character of the disturbances is constructed. Using a sample of 
cities for which data were collected by the Lemberg Center for the 
Study of Violence over the period 1961-1968 in conjunction with 
census data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, the 
relationship between measures of decomposed wage inequality and 
segregation and measures of riot activity is tested. The findings 
lend support to the rising expectations hypothesis, an aspect of the 
relative deprivation view of violence. The "discrimination" component 
of wage inequality is found to be a significant factor in this rising 
expectations dynamic, while the "human capital" component is not.

Bibliography: Chandra, Siddharth. "The "Revolution of Rising 
Expectations," Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Racial 
Disturbances of the 1960s." University of Pittsburgh, Working Paper 
2002.

Subject: T
Geographical Area: 7
Country/Region: USA
Time Period: 9

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