scholarly journals But Why Glendale? A History of Armenian Immigration to Southern California

2017 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fittante
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Urban Center ◽  
Complex Matrix ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

Despite its many contributions to Los Angeles, the internally complex community of Armenian Angelenos remains enigmatically absent from academic print. As a result, its history remains untold. While Armenians live throughout Southern California, the greatest concentration exists in Glendale, where Armenians make up a demographic majority (approximately 40 percent of the population) and have done much to reconfigure this homogenous, sleepy, sundown town of the 1950s into an ethnically diverse and economically booming urban center. This article presents a brief history of Armenian immigration to Southern California and attempts to explain why Glendale has become the world's most demographically concentrated Armenian diasporic hub. It does so by situating the history of Glendale's Armenian community in a complex matrix of international, national, and local events.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Tracking of Vape Shop Compliance With State Business Regulations Within Southern California Ethnic Neighborhoods During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
Donna Medel ◽  
Artur Galimov ◽  
Leah Meza ◽  
Jane K. Steinberg ◽  
Carla J. Berg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Contextual Risk ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Longitudinal Tracking ◽  
Business Regulations ◽  
Stage 1 ◽  
Vape Shops

The overall aim of this study is to examine vape shop business operations during COVID-19 among a cohort of 88 vape shops in the Greater Los Angeles area in Southern California, located in ethnically diverse communities. A total of six web- and/or phone-based assessments were conducted over a 12-week period (April 1, 2020–June 10, 2020), extending from the mandated closure of nonessential businesses (Stage 1; Assessments 1–3) to the reopening of nonessential sectors (Stage 2; Assessments 4–6), to evaluate business operations (open and closure statuses). The proportion of vape shops found to be noncompliant with the Governor’s executive order (i.e., open) during Stage 1 gradually increased from 54 (61.4%) at Assessment 1 (week of April 1, 2020) to 58 (65.9%) at Assessment 3 (week of April 29, 2020). Moreover, vape shops located in Hispanic/Latino and Korean/Asian communities (vs. those in non-Hispanic White and African American communities) were more likely to stay open both during and after the shutdown at Assessments 1 and 6. More specifically, vape shops located in Hispanic/Latino communities were significantly more likely to offer walk-in service during Assessment 1 (during the shutdown), and vape shops in Hispanic/Latino and Korean/Asian were significantly more likely to offer walk-in service during Assessment 6 (after the re-opening). This study demonstrates high rates of noncompliance with shutdown orders among vape shops located in ethnic communities, thus suggesting higher contextual risk factors of COVID-19 exposure among certain ethnic communities.

The Los Angeles earthquakes of July, 1920

1921 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79
Author(s):  
Stephen Taber
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
History Of ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City ◽  
Tectonic Movements

Summary More than a hundred earthquakes have been recorded in southern California during the period February-September, 1920. These earthquakes have originated along several different faults in the vicinity of Los Angeles, but all of them are believed to have resulted from the adjustment of stresses set up in the region by the same general tectonic movements. The series of shocks felt in Los Angeles on July 16th originated along faults which cut Miocene and Pliocene rocks in the northern part of the city. The three strongest shocks on July 16th had epicentral intensities of between VI and VII in the Rossi-Forel scale; and they were felt over areas of from 500 to 2500 square miles. The known seismic history of southern California and the magnitude of the post-Pleistocene movements both indicate that the seismicity of the region is relatively high. There are many faults in the vicinity of Los Angeles; some of which are known to be active, while others are suspected of being active. Fortunately those within the city are short, while the longer ones are seven to thirty miles away, and are therefore less dangerous in so far as Los Angeles is concerned.

Organizing Capital and Controlling Race and Labor

2019 ◽  
pp. 48-76
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Southern California ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Porfirio Diaz ◽  
Informal Empire ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Labor System

This chapter explores how, as Los Angeles capitalists embarked on investment ventures and urban-imperial expansion across Mexico, they extended concepts of race and labor forged in Los Angeles to build networks for investment and to control their Mexican workforce. They channelled a history of working with California’s Mexican American elite into productive partnerships with president Porfirio Díaz and other Mexican elites. Los Angeles investors also applied ideas about race and labor developed in Southern California to their investments in Mexico. These ideas were also linked to their perspective on race and American empire-building around the globe. Anglo-American investors in Los Angeles believed that a hierarchy of race justified their labor system in Southern California as well as imperial exploits around the globe. These investors included William Rosecrans; Harrison Gray Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times; Senator Thomas Bard; and oil baron Edward Doheny. They believed that Mexican land, resources, and labor could be drawn into Los Angeles’s commercial orbit in the form of a racialized labor system and “informal” empire.

Commentary

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-434
Author(s):  
David R. James
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Electoral Laws ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

Critical reviews of social science research such as that presented in Colorblind Injustice typically take one of two approaches. The most popular approach evaluates the merits of the research and includes an appraisal of the logical coherence of the guiding theory or questions, the validity of the inferences made from the empirical observations, and the like.The second approach evaluates the policy implications of the research conclusions. Here I take the second rather than the first approach because I find Kousser’s research to be a masterful demonstration that racial motivations produced the electoral laws and redistricting efforts in Los Angeles,Memphis, Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas between the 1950s and 1990. Furthermore, Kousser shows how the development of Supreme Court doctrine concerning the use of racial criteria in redrawing electoral districts is logically flawed and a departure from legal precedents set in the 1950s and 1960s.The current trend toward a standard of colorblindness ignores the history of discrimination against blacks and Latinos and perpetuates racial injustice. Hence, the title of the book.

scholarly journals Drastic Measures in Los Angeles

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
David Lau
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southern California Region ◽  
The City

This essay is a review of two recent books of criticism: Bill Mohr's account of the Los Angeles poetry scene and Ignacio Lopez-Calvo's account of recent film and fiction set in Latino L.A. The essay argues for a conception of L.A. rooted in understanding the political and economic history of the city, and concludes with some speculation on the future of cultural production in the southern California region.

Juvenile Laryngeal Papillomas With Cardiomegaly and Polycythemia

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
Donald B. Hawkins ◽  
John N. Udall
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Respiratory Distress ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
University Of Southern California ◽  
Pediatric Airway ◽  
Private Physician ◽  
History Of

Juvenile laryngeal papillomas are one of the most dangerous and treacherous chronic airway problems of childhood. The following case report illustrates several interesting points regarding laryngeal papillomas and the pediatric airway. CASE REPORT This 1½-year-old girl was brought by her parents to the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center in October 1973 with a history of fever, cough, and wheezing respiration for four days. Intramuscularly administered penicillin and a corticosteroid given by her private physician had not lessened these symptoms. History was significant in that her voice had always been hoarse, progressing to aphonia in recent weeks. During the preceding six months, she had been treated for wheezing and respiratory distress on four occasions.

Planning Truck-Only Lanes: Emerging Lessons from the Southern California Experience

2003 ◽  
Vol 1833 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Fischer ◽  
Dike N. Ahanotu ◽  
Janine M. Waliszewski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The United States ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Inland Empire ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
San Gabriel Valley ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analytical Tools

Recent efforts to develop truck-only facilities in the United States are discussed. The rationale for truck-only highways is described, and the history of efforts to separate trucks and automobiles on the nation's roadways is presented. The truck lane program of the Southern California Association of Governments is one of the most ambitious programs of its type in the United States. Preliminary analysis of truck lanes for SR-60 and I-710 is described. SR-60 is an east–west corridor linking downtown Los Angeles with the warehouse and manufacturing districts of the San Gabriel Valley and the Inland Empire. 1-710 is the major access route to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Both freeways each have one of the highest truck volumes in California, and truck mobility on these corridors is a significant problem. Truck lane projects on SR-60 and I-710 are in the feasibility analysis stage and much has been learned in these early studies. Various issues are addressed, including the trade-off between limiting access to improve operational costs and limit capital costs, need to generate demand, time-of-day distribution of truck traffic and its relationship to potentially benefit truck mobility, and need for improved analytical tools. Also described are issues related to facility design and configuration, demand analysis, and toll analysis.

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