Ethnic Peace in the American City Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond

Name: Ethnic Peace in the American City Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780814715840

ISBN-10: 0814715842

ISBN-13: 9780814715840

Edition: 1999

Authors: Edward Taehan Chang, Jeannette Diaz-Veizades

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The Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic civil unrest. Latinos, Asian Americans, whites, and African Americans were involved as both victims and assailants. Nearly half of the businesses destroyed were Korean American owned, and nearly half of the people arrested were Latino.In the aftermath of the unrest, Los Angeles, with its extremely diverse population, emerged as a particularly useful site in which to examine race relations.Ethnic Peace in the American Citydocuments the nature of contemporary inter-ethnic relations in the United States by describing the economic, political, and psychological dynamics of race relations in inner-city Los Angeles.…

Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 179
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Edward Chang is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and former Director of the Center for Asian Pacific America at the University of California, Riverside.

Jeannette Diaz-Veizades is an executive faculty member at the Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



America's First Multiethnic "Civil Unrest"



New Urban Crisis: Korean-African American Relations



The Media, the Invisible Minority, and Race



Building Immigrant Communities in Los Angeles: Koreatown and Pico-Union



Building Cross-Cultural Coalitions: The Black-Korean Alliance (BKA) and the Latino-Black Roundtable (LBR)



Conflict Resolution and Community Development in Multicultural Urban Centers


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Authors