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/

Kyeyoung Park is associate professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Part I: Korean, African, and Latin Americans in South Los Angeles

Introduction: Theoretical Interpretations of Ethnic Tension

Chapter 1: The Political Economy of Ethno-Racial Identities in South Los Angeles

Part II: Black-Korean Tension Before the Unrest

Chapter 2: Disentangling Race and Racism

Chapter 3: Culture, Race, and Clash

Chapter 4: Triangulating Class at the Crossroads of Race and Ethnicity

Part III: Black, Latino, and Korean Relations after the Unrest: How Race and Ethnicity Have Become the Expresser of Changing Class Relations

Chapter 5: Class Relations of Surveillance

Chapter 6: Changing the Business Plan: Korean Merchants Try to Reintegrate into the South LA Community

Chapter 7: Ethnic Tension in the Aftermath: Rebuilding LA without Liquor Stores

Part IV: Conclusion

Chapter 8: An Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest

Chapter 9: The Racial Cartography of Post-Unrest LA