Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

by

Anna Deavere Smith

Watts Truce Term Analysis

The Watts truce was a 1992 peace agreement negotiated among Los Angeles’s rival street gangs. It significantly minimized street violence in Los Angeles over the following decades.

Watts Truce Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Watts Truce or refer to Watts Truce. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
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These Curious People Quotes

Why do I have to be on a side?

Related Characters: Stanley K. Sheinbaum (speaker)
Page Number: 15
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Watts Truce Term Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

The timeline below shows where the term Watts Truce appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
These Curious People
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
Healing, Progress, and Collective Consciousness  Theme Icon
Individuals vs. Institutions Theme Icon
...good friend, Maxine Waters, to witness the police break up gangs meeting to negotiate the Watts gang truce . When they arrived, the place was swarming with police. (full context)
Surfer’s Desert
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
Justice, Perspective, and Ambiguity  Theme Icon
Individuals vs. Institutions Theme Icon
Action vs. Symbolic Gesture  Theme Icon
...new civil rights movement “like we need sunshine, and […] fresh air.” He praises the gang truce that has just taken place in the city, seeing it as a “sign of /... (full context)
Lightning But No Rain
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
Healing, Progress, and Collective Consciousness  Theme Icon
Justice, Perspective, and Ambiguity  Theme Icon
Individuals vs. Institutions Theme Icon
...interviews Theresa Allison, founder of Mothers Reclaiming Our Children (Mothers ROC), and the mother of gang truce architect Dewayne Holmes. Alison talks about the origins of Mothers ROC, which began on November... (full context)
Bubble Gum Machine Man
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
Healing, Progress, and Collective Consciousness  Theme Icon
Justice, Perspective, and Ambiguity  Theme Icon
...interviews Allen Cooper, a.k.a. Big Al, an ex-gang member, ex-con, and current activist for the national truce movement . Cooper talks about the crimes of assault and battery the LA Four were accused... (full context)
Limbo/Twilight #2
Police Brutality, Corruption, and Systemic Racism  Theme Icon
Healing, Progress, and Collective Consciousness  Theme Icon
Justice, Perspective, and Ambiguity  Theme Icon
Individuals vs. Institutions Theme Icon
Smith interviews Twilight Bey, organizer of the gang truce . They meet in a Denny’s restaurant in February of 1993. Twilight explains the origins... (full context)