The Play, Film, and Author:
The PBS site for the original broadcast of the
show. A great place to start any further research into the program
and the issues it explores:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/stageonscreen/twilight/index.html
A downloadable Twilight
study guide from PBS and the company that produced
the film version of the play.
An Anna Deavere Smith profile from Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/cov_08bc.html
An interesting bibliography about the riots completed
by a USC student a few years after they took place:
http://isd.usc.edu/~anthonya/la.htm
"'Is Race a Trope?' Anna Deveare Smith and
the Question of Performativity": A scholarly journal article
about Deveare Smith's work written by Debby Thompson for the
African American Review: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2838/1_37/100959606/p13/article.jhtml?term=
"Insights from a Perpetual Outsider":
An essay written by Anna Deavere Smith for the Los Angeles
Times on the tenth anniversary of the riots:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-042802deavere,1,1000210.story
Sites about the 1992 Riots
We Interrupt This Message
presents a history of the riots and other resources from the
perspective of the marginalized groups involved in the riots.
This link takes you to their riot chronology, but the site has
many interesting materials, including a look back at the riots
ten years later.
http://www.interrupt.org/L.A._Anniversary_Chron.html
Comprehensive 10th Anniversary coverage of the
riots by the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-lariots-gallery.storygallery
L.A. Times Video Clips from Riot (includes
footage of Rodney King Beating:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-riotsvideo.videogallery
"Three Days of Hell in Los Angeles":
news reports from the days of the riots: http://www.emergency.com/la-riots.htm
A History of race riots in America (just in case
you thought these were something unusual in our history!):
http://www.thenorthstarnetwork.com/news/othernews/181547-1.html
The Applied Research Center is a public policy,
educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues
of race and social change:
http://www.arc.org/
Interested in the economic causes of the 1992
riots, check out this scholarly journal article: The
Los Angeles Riot and the Economics of Urban Unrest
The Los Angeles Riot Research Page is
a good general resource:
http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/bh/riot/
A summary review of a book about the Korean American
perspective on the 1992 riots:
http://www.sbs.uab.edu/history/varticles/bluedrea.htm
