A Zócalo/Esperanza Community Housing Event

JULY 27, 2021 6:30 PM PDT
Mercado La Paloma
3655 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
In-person and virtual event

South Los Angeles, one of the West Coast’s last great working-class places, has been a destination point for two great migrations: African Americans arriving from the South and East, and, more recently, Latin Americans immigrating to Southern California. While media have long dwelled on examples of interracial and interethnic conflict there, the everyday reality of South L.A.’s ever-changing neighborhoods has revolved around Black-Brown co-existence, cooperation, and innovative multiracial organizing. How have South Central’s diverse residents managed to find solidarity in unsettling and polarizing times? What new and shared place-based identities have emerged from the area’s mix of histories and cultures? And what can the rest of L.A., and the U.S., learn from South L.A.?

USC sociologists Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor, co-authors of South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A., and Corey Matthews, Chief Operating Officer of Community Coalition, visit Zócalo to explore the lessons of South L.A.’s struggles and successes.

Event Recap
HOW SOUTH (CENTRAL) L.A. IS FORGING ITS FUTURE

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BY JACKIE MANSKY
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