- Lost LA
From Little Tokyo To Crenshaw
After internment camps, Japanese Americans made L.A.'s Crenshaw neighborhood their home.
Japanese Americans returning from World War II incarceration camps rebuilt their community in L.A.’s Crenshaw area. In this episode, we walk through Little Tokyo, explore the archives at the Japanese American National Museum, share a meal at historic Tak’s Cafe, shoot hoops at Dorsey High and consider how the neighborhood’s diverse history intersects with community-building efforts today.
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Today, the Crenshaw district of South Los Angeles is known as a predominantly Black neighborhood, while Japanese Americans are most commonly associated with Little Tokyo, Sawtelle, Torrance and Gardena. But after World War II, Crenshaw had the largest concentration of Japanese Americans in the continental United States.
A long history of Asian Americans challenging systemic forms of racism and injustice in ways that linked their fates to their African American neighbors begins in the multiracial neighborhood of 1950s and 1960s Crenshaw.
For close observers, signs of a Japanese American presence are visible throughout the Crenshaw district.
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How Basketball Helped Revitalize the Yellow Brotherhood (Clip)
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Reflecting on Japanese American Life in Postwar Los Angeles (Clip)
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