Race and place at the city limits: imaginative geographies of South Central Los Angeles

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (14) ◽  
pp. 2583-2600
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wiggins
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
South Central ◽  
Imaginative Geographies ◽  
South Central Los Angeles ◽  
The City ◽  
Race And Place

Justice for Samuel Faulkner

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Lytle Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Black Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Community Members ◽  
South Central ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
South Central Los Angeles ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

The sixth chapter spans the decades between the 1920s and the 1960s. In these years, as Los Angeles took center stage in the nation’s landscape of jails and prisons, the population of African Americans incarcerated in Los Angeles shot from politically irrelevant and slightly disproportionate to politically dominant and stunningly disproportionate. It has remained so ever since. Chapter 6 tracks the origins of the incarceration of blacks in Los Angeles. In particular, it details why and how black incarceration so disproportionately followed the expansion of L.A.’s African American community. Moreover, by exhuming the first recorded killing of a young black male by the LA PD, which occurred in South Central Los Angeles on the evening of April 24, 1927, this chapter details why and how police brutality so closely accompanied black incarceration in the city. It is a brutal history attended by persistent—and, in time, explosive—black protest, tracking how community members fought police brutality between 1927 and the outbreak of the Watts Rebellion in 1965. Indeed, race, policing, and protest became inextricable as Los Angeles advanced toward becoming the carceral capital of the United States.

Teaching in the Hood, About the Hood: A Case Study of Teachers in South Central Los Angeles

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592199523
Author(s):  
Julio Angel Alicea
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Spatial Turn ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central High School ◽  
South Central Los Angeles ◽  
Race And Place

This study examines how three teachers working at a South Central high school teach critically about race and place. While building on the “spatial turn” in social science, the article draws on Critical Race Spatial Analysis to advance literature at the intersection of race, place, and pedagogy. Additionally, the article utilizes cognitive mapping to understand the teachers’ senses of place and then, through a combination of interviews, observations, and document analysis, examines how they integrate racial-spatial ideas into their teaching. Positing a “critical pedagogy of race and place,” the study concludes with implications for future research and teacher education.

scholarly journals Some Children Left Behind

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
South Central ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
South Central Los Angeles ◽  
The U.S

Using a combination of oral life history interviews, field observation, and conversations with undocumented Mexican immigrant parents raising children born in the United States in South Central Los Angeles, California, this in-depth consideration of the state of emergency they face as a result of the U.S. government's implementation of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) and Secure Communities Program (SCP) reveals their uniquely local and transnational confrontation of an increasingly insecure family situation that stretches across the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout U.S. inner cities, like South Central Los Angeles. The visibly public alienation these children, most recently identified as citizen kids endure makes evident that tragically they are most vulnerable to the indignities born out of these programs. The convergence of minor offenses committed by their parents, the illegality of their immigration status, and these children's U.S. citizenship status have paved the way for an incalculable loss that is most palpable when pausing to observe their multifaceted alienation. The relationship between these children's citizenship status, family relationships, day to day interactions, and these program's implementation reveals an underestimated yet infinitely tragic state of emergency.

Contextualizing from Within: Perceptions of Physical Disorder in a South Central L.A. African American Mosque

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela J. Prickett
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Disorganization ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Physical Disorder ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
South Central ◽  
South Central Los Angeles

Physical disorder is fundamental to how urban sociologists understand the inner workings of a neighborhood. This article takes advantage of ethnographic and historical research to understand how, over time, participants in an urban mosque in South Central Los Angeles develop patterns of meaning–making and decision–making about physical disorder. I examine how specific negative physical conditions on the property came to exist as well as the varied processes by which they changed—both improving and worsening—over the community's long history. Contrary to dominant “social disorganization” and “broken windows” theories that argue disorder is always a destructive force, I find that members saw specific signs of physical disorder as links to their collective past as well as placeholders for a future they hoped to construct. I then analyze how these shared imaginings shaped the ways members responded to physical problems in the present. The strength of this “contextualizing from within” approach is that attention to context and period allows researchers to better theorize why communities may or may not organize to repair physical disorder.

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