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SOURCE: New York Times
9/14/2022
Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre
Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost.
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SOURCE: Post45
8/8/2022
Noir Politics in Mike Davis's "City of Quartz"
by Charlotte Rosen
The late Mike Davis wrote his influential and controversial history of Los Angeles as a noir thriller, exposing the greed and corruption beneath the sunny surface.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
7/5/2022
The Walls of Troy: Pandemic and Exclusion at an Urban University
by Arabella Delgado
The pandemic has clarified and underscored ways that the University of Southern California, like most private urban campuses, has long sought to maximize the separation between its campus and the surrounding community.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/31/2022
Los Angeles's Response to 1992 Riots Remains Model of How Not to Do It
by V.N. Trinh
The strategy of encouraging private business development, without seriously reforming police, fixing public schools, or addressing poverty, proved unequal to the task of promoting justice in LA.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
4/29/2022
Racist Jokes Were the Glue of the LAPD Culture that Led to 1992 Riots
by Raúl Pérez
The LAPD was never forced to confront the documented ways that a culture of racial stereotyping and bigoted jokes cemented the systemic abuse of communities of color in the city.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
4/12/2022
Greg Ginn, SST Records, and the Rise of SoCal Punk
"In its 1980s heyday, SST released at least a dozen canonical rock albums that were notable for their rejection of convention."
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
3/17/2022
Two Artists Unearth Hidden Histories of LA
Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa discuss the histories and daily life of the Japanese American community in Midtown Los Angeles, an area that has largely been erased from Angelenos' maps of their city.
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SOURCE: Protean
2/25/2022
Broken Homes of the Drug War
by David Helps
Rather than a mistake or an isolated instance of excess, a notoriously brutal and destructive LAPD raid on an apartment complex in 1988 should be seen as part of a political attack on the city's Black poor, enabled by cultural stereotypes of families of color.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
3/1/2022
CORE's Fight for Fair Housing in Los Angeles
by M. Keith Claybrook, Jr.
The fight for fair housing in Los Angeles demonstrates the way that racism has been maintained through the institutions of housing and real estate.
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SOURCE: CSPAN
1/27/2022
CIA Director John Deutch at Los Angeles Town Hall in 1996 Denies Agency Sold Cocaine in City
A town hall meeting in Los Angeles grew heated when the CIA director denied allegations published by reporter Gary Webb that the Agency was involved in importing and distributing drugs to South Central Los Angeles.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/6/2021
Black Family's Success in Recovering California Land Could Spark National Land Return Movement
"Activists and scholars say there are other similar cases nationwide, but proving them — and getting the current property owners to cooperate — will be a different matter."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/24/2021
150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community
by Reece Jones
It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/10/2021
How a Black Family Got Their Beach Back
The historic Bruce's Beach case is inspiring social justice leaders and reparations activists to fight for other Black families whose ancestors were also victims of land theft in the United States.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9/10/2021
Los Angeles Pioneered American Racial Segregation
by Gene Slater
The real estate industry acted as a cartel to limit the free market in housing to preserve racial homogeneity, claiming it was necessary to protect property values. This form of housing segregation was tested in the booming market of 1920s California and spread nationwide.
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SOURCE: Tropics of Meta
8/27/2021
A Historic Seaside Community: Recovering Santa Monica's "Inkwell" Beach
by Brian Dunlap
"Memorial Day 1920. A young African American chauffeur, Arthur Valentine, settled on “Whites Only” Topanga Beach. With friends and family, he stepped from his truck. Three sheriff’s deputies demanded that they leave."
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SOURCE: KCET
7/6/2021
Before Downtown L.A.'s High Rises, Bunker Hill Was Simply Home
"Today, the Victorian mansions of Bunker Hill are often remembered nostalgically, but the community was also a vibrant, walkable neighborhood in the middle of a bustling downtown."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/27/2021
California’s Novel Attempt at Land Reparations
Los Angeles County will return title to land that once was "Bruce's Beach," one of the only Southern California oceanfront resorts welcoming Black visitors, to the descendants of the owners from whom the property was taken by eminent domain in 1927.
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SOURCE: Vox
5/17/2021
The Violent Origin Story of Dodger Stadium
by Ranjani Chakraborty and Melissa Hirsch
Through interviews with several former residents of the area, Vox explores the story of their neighborhoods razed to make room for Dodger Stadium. It’s one that’s often missing from the history of Los Angeles and has created a double-edged relationship for some Dodger fans. Features commentary by historian Priscilla Leiva.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/2/2021
L.A.’s History is Often Whitewashed, Romanticized and Censored. A New Push to Tell the Truth
Christopher Hawthorne leads a Civic Memory Working Group convened by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, that works to reverse the city's tendency to boost myths in the place of public history.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/2/2021
What Manhattan Beach, Calif., Says About Reparations
"When a wealthy, liberal California town can’t bring itself to even apologize for seizing land from Black residents a century ago, it underscores what a long road lies ahead for justice and reconciliation."