South Los Angeles Since the 1960s: Race, Place, and Class

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-74
Author(s):  
Andre Comandon ◽  
Paul Ong
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
The South ◽  
South Los Angeles ◽  
Economic Class ◽  
South Central ◽  
The 1960S

South Los Angeles embodies a complex history that captures the dynamics of spatial inequality. It is an area where some of the largest protests reacting to a system of racial oppression have imprinted a persistent image on the names South Central and Watts. This article analyzes how the stigma attached to the South Los Angeles area has translated to place specific forms of inequality. We take advantage of the consistency in the boundaries the Census used to collect data in the area from 1960 to 2016 to test hypotheses about the relative importance of race, place, and economic class in the Los Angeles region. The analysis revolves around three themes critical to furthering equality: housing, employment, and transportation. We find that the significance of place has changed significantly over the course of half a century without ever disappearing. In each of the themes we study, the significance of the factors we highlight changes, but South Los Angeles remains disadvantaged relative to the region.

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.

scholarly journals Economic Growth of the South Versus other Regions: Past Trends and Future Prospects

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Herman Bluestone
Keyword(s):  
Employment Growth ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
North Central Region ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
The South ◽  
North Central ◽  
Central Division ◽  
South Central ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Rates Of Growth

The dramatic surge of economic activity in the South is a relatively recent development. During the first half of the postwar period, the South, along with the Northeast and North Central region, lagged well behind the nation in population and employment growth (Table 1). It was only in the 1960s that rates of growth in the South began to exceed the national averages, and it was only in the 1970s that the South began to mount a serious challenge to the West for first place in regional growth. It also should be noted that the surge in southern growth was not uniformly distributed; most of it occurred in the region's two western subregions, the East South Central division and the energy-rich West South Central division.

Zoya Il'inichna Glezer – life and scientific achievements

2019 ◽  
pp. 318-323
Author(s):  
Zinaida V. Pushina ◽  
Galina V. Stepanova ◽  
Ekaterina L. Grundan
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
Kara Sea ◽  
European Russia ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
The South ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Scientific Achievements ◽  
South Of European Russia

Zoya Ilyinichna Glezer is the largest Russian micropaleontologist, a specialist in siliceous microfossils — Cenozoic diatoms and silicoflagellates. Since the 1960s, she systematically studied Paleogene siliceous microfossils from various regions of the country and therefore was an indispensable participant in the development of unified stratigraphic schemes for Paleogene siliceous plankton of various regions of the USSR. She made a great contribution to the creation of the newest Paleogene schemes in the south of European Russia and Western Siberia, to the correlations of the Paleogene deposits of the Kara Sea.

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