race riot
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- noun
- /reɪs ˈraɪət/
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disturbio racial
- But just six days later, on August 11, the Watts race riots broke out in Los Angeles, leaving 34 dead.
- the 1919 race riot
- the Chicago race riot
Strikes, bombings, race riots and government crackdowns are racking the country.
- Strikes, bombings, race riots and government crackdowns are racking the country.
- You know, a lot of people felt that, you know, especially the American press said this film will start race riots all across America.
- She is the ground on which the Race Riot takes place.
- First of all they coined the riots race riots.
Examples
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Major Loving turned his attention to "race riots and their cause."
Academic text (1999) -
Another showed a picture of the Detroit race riots.
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You know, a lot of people felt that, you know, especially the American press said this film will start race riots all across America.
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We're in a nation divided with race riots in the street.
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In the wake of the East Saint Louis race riots, the now black soldiers are returning as heroes, welcomed by a million people.
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A dozen years later, after the 1908 race riot in the capital, blacks founded the NAACP.
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His first and most vivid childhood recollection was of a race riot that had occurred on the city's near north side.
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The 1969 race riots demonstrated that a coalition government alone was insufficient to maintain inter-community harmony.
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In the same vein, he graphically documents the violence of the 1834 New York race riots in his Annex L.
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The race riot in Los Angeles led to widespread property damage and numerous injuries.
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How Violent
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun-noun combination simply links 'race' (ethnic group) with 'riot' (violent public disorder), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to a riot caused by racial or ethnic tensions. This compositional, descriptive pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English compounding, making the meaning predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Race riot is a literal name: race points to different groups of people and riot is when a crowd turns violent. That's why it means 'a violent public fight between people of different races'.