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European Sociological Review 14:255-278 1998
© 1998 Oxford University Press

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Racial Conflict and Protest in South Africa and the United States

Susan Olzak and Johan L. Olivier

Department of Sociology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305. USA
Centre for Socio-political Analysis, Human Sciences Research Council Private Bag X41, Pretoria 0001, South Africa. email: jlo{at}socdyn.hsrc.ac.za

Our analysis of thousands of racial confrontations and protests in South Africa and the United States provides support for the hypothesis that some forms of state-sponsored repression fuel racial unrest. In the United States our results indicate that the number of arrests by police at prior collective events deterred protest but it raised the rate of racial conflict between whites and blacks. In South Africa the situation is more complicated: arrests in the form of detentions raised the rate of and-Apartheid protest, but banning of political activists decreased protest activity and interracial conflict. Consistent with competition and resource-mobilization theories, our results show that declining levels of racial inequality in education for blacks significantly raised rates of black protest in both countries.

Manuscript received: August 1, 1996.


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