LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest (Korean Communities across the World)

In LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest, Kyeyoung Park revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged. She examines how structural inequality impacted relations among Koreans, African-Americans, and Latinos. Park explores how race, citizenship, class, and culture were axes of inequality in a multi-tiered “racial cartography” that affected how Los Angeles residents thought about and interacted with each other and were emphasized in the processes of social inequality and conflict.For more information, click here: https://lasocialscience.ucla.edu/2021/02/24/la-social-science-book-series-on-korean-intergroup-relations-in-la-with-professor-kyeyoung-park/ Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Figures 10 List of Tables 12 Acknowledgments 14 PART I: KOREAN, AFRICAN, AND LATIN AMERICANS IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES 16 Introduction: Theoretical Interpretations of Ethnic Tension 18 1 The Political Economy of Ethno-Racial Identities in South Los Angeles 46 PART II: BLACK-KOREAN TENSION BEFORE THE UNREST 76 2 Disentangling “Race and Racism” 78 3 Culture, Race, and Clash 104 4 Triangulating Class at the Crossroads of Race and Ethnicity 130 PART III: BLACK, LATINO, AND KOREAN RELATIONS AFTER THE UNREST: HOW RACE AND ETHNICITY HAVE BECOME THE EXPRESSER OF CHANGING CLASS RELATIONS 152 5 Class Relations of Surveillance 154 6 Changing the Business Plan: Korean Merchants Try to Reintegrate into the South LA Community 180 7 Ethnic Tension in the Aftermath: “Rebuilding LA without Liquor Stores” 216 PART IV: CONCLUSION 240 8 An Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest 242 9 The Racial Cartography of Post-Unrest LA 266 References 290 Index 312 About the Author 330 In LA Rising, Kyeyoung Park revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged. She examines how structural inequality impacted relations among Koreans, African Americans, and Latinos. Park explores how race, citizenship, class, and culture were axes of inequality in a multitiered "racial cartography" that affected how Los Angeles residents thought about and interacted with each other and were emphasized in the processes of social inequality and conflict--back cover LA Rising revisits the Los Angeles unrest of 1992 and the interethnic and racial tensions that emerged as well as how structural inequality impacted relations among Koreans, African-Americans, and Latinos.