About the Author

Patrick D. Joyce has taught government and politics at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and the College of the Holy Cross.

Reviews

Some of Joyce's major findings have important policy implications because they teach local community leaders, government officials, and politicians a lesson about how to transform latent intergroup tensions into less violent forms of conflict. - Pyong Gap Min (The Journal of Asian Studies) In No Fire Next Time, Patrick Joyce offers another possible approach to conflict resolution: He asks the unasked question, what is wrong with conflict? Overall, Joyce offers a fresh perspective on an old, yet unresolved issue that continues to shape relations among native-born and immigrant minority groups in America.... Joyce's book is a long-awaited study that finally offers a complex analysis of community activism among Black Americans within the context of local politics in New York and Los Angeles.... Joyce's book fills a vacuum in current literature and proposes innovative and promising solutions for mediating interminority tensions. - Angie Y. Chung, University at Albany (Contemporary Sociology) Joyce calls attention to local political institutions as important and under-analyzed actors. Future students of urban politics and conflict should heed that call. - Nicole P. Marwell, Columbia University (Political Science Quarterly) The central argument here is that interracial conflicts between blacks and Koreans are more likely to be channeled into nonviolent resolutions in cities with strong urban political institutions that better connect city residents to their community and their government.... This book represents a contribution to the growing literature on race relations in America. Of potential interest to academic libraries, as well as public libraries serving diverse populations. (Library Journal)

Some of Joyce's major findings have important policy implications because they teach local community leaders, government officials, and politicians a lesson about how to transform latent intergroup tensions into less violent forms of conflict.

In No Fire Next Time, Patrick Joyce offers another possible approach to conflict resolution: He asks the unasked question, what is wrong with conflict? Overall, Joyce offers a fresh perspective on an old, yet unresolved issue that continues to shape relations among native-born and immigrant minority groups in America.... Joyce's book is a long-awaited study that finally offers a complex analysis of community activism among Black Americans within the context of local politics in New York and Los Angeles.... Joyce's book fills a vacuum in current literature and proposes innovative and promising solutions for mediating interminority tensions.

Joyce calls attention to local political institutions as important and under-analyzed actors. Future students of urban politics and conflict should heed that call.

The central argument here is that interracial conflicts between blacks and Koreans are more likely to be channeled into nonviolent resolutions in cities with strong urban political institutions that better connect city residents to their community and their government.... This book represents a contribution to the growing literature on race relations in America. Of potential interest to academic libraries, as well as public libraries serving diverse populations.