Jill A. Edy
Contributor
Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Oklahoma. She contributed an article on “Watts Riots of 1965” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), and a version of this article was used for her Britannica entry on this topic.
Primary Contributions (1)
Watts Riots of 1965, series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighborhoods of South-Central Los Angeles that began August 11, 1965, and lasted for six days. The immediate cause of the disturbances was the arrest of…
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Publications (2)
Encyclopedia of Governance (2007)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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Troubled Pasts News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest (July 2006)
A nation's collective memory does not simply exist. It is created. But what factors influence its form and content? And what roles do the news media play in fashioning our collective memory? Here Jill A. Edy observes the process of negotiating a meaning for the past as it unfolds in the news, exploring the ways that news practices, the relationships between actors who make the news, the expectations of news audiences, and the impact of current events affect the development of collective memories...
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