Now, an Georgetown scholar has taken the word and its underlying concept—violence against a minority group by a dominant group—and applied it to U.S. history in a book simply titled American Pogroms. Is that true, and if so, why did you feel it was important to write about the central idea of American Pogroms? My new book is my attempt to apply ideas I learned from my family history to American history, bringing to the subject my knowledge of terrorism, insurgency and other forms of political violence. “Riot” has an implication of uprising, where the minority group “began” the conflict and is otherwise responsible for instigating and continuing the violence. Jim Crow codified the discrimination, making social custom—e.g., that Black Americans must show deference to whites by stepping aside on the sidewalk—the law.