".
        . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and
        social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American
        race riots."
        -- American Historical Review
      "His work fills a serious
        gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before
        analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots
        were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number
        of deaths."
        -- American Journal of Sociology