".         . . 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