{"id":581,"date":"2021-02-04T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/?p=581"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:04:11","slug":"podcast-multiculturalism-and-racial-conflict-in-las-little-bronze-tokyo-1941-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/digitalww\/podcast-multiculturalism-and-racial-conflict-in-las-little-bronze-tokyo-1941-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Multiculturalism and Racial Conflict in LA&#8217;s &#8220;Little Bronze Tokyo,&#8221; 1941-1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Wendi Zhou (Autumn 2020 student)\u00a0<\/h5>\n<p>After the end of Japanese American internment, many Japanese Americans returned to their homes in LA&#8217;s &#8220;Little Tokyo&#8221; to find it nicknamed &#8220;Bronzeville.&#8221; The area had been settled by African-American migrants who moved west during the Great Migration. This podcast explores the racial tensions and multi-cultural alliances that emerged in this LA neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1FLNxwj3sKelZsNJPsL_kstULb5cD2JmI\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multiculturalism and Racial Conflict in LA&#8217;s &#8216;Little Bronze Tokyo&#8217;<\/a><\/em> here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Bibliography:<\/p>\n<p>Arnold, Roxane. \u201cLittle Tokyo Store Owner, 95, Recalls Good and Bad Years.\u201d <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Aug. 26, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Baruch, Dorothy. \u201cSleep Comes Hard.\u201d <em>The Nation<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Jan. 27, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201c\u2018Bronzeville\u2019 Returns to L.A.\u201d <em>Rafu Shimpo<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Jun. 27, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201cExecutive Order 8802.\u201d Record Group 11, General Records of the United States Government, National Archives, Jun. 25, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201cExecutive Order 9066.\u201d Record Group 11, General Records of the United States Government, National Archives, Feb. 19, 1942.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Gibson, Charles. \u201cMove to Avert Serious Clash in \u2018Little Tokyo\u2019.\u201d <em>Pittsburgh Courier<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Feb. 22, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Hawkins, Coleman. <em>Body and Soul<\/em>. Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra. Bluebird 30-0825-A, 1939, compact record.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Jenks, Hillary. \u201cBronzeville, Little Tokyo, and the Unstable Geography of Race in Post-World War II Los Angeles.\u201d <em>Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 93, no. 2 (2011): 201-235.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Jenks, Hillary. \u201cUrban Space, Ethnic Community, and National Belonging: the Political Landscape of Memory in Little Tokyo.\u201d <em>GeoJournal<\/em> 73, no. 3 (2008): 231-244.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Kurashige, Lon. <em>Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990<\/em>. University of California Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Kurashige, Scott. \u201cThe Many Facets of Brown: Integration in a Multiracial Society.\u201d <em>The Journal of American History<\/em> 91, no. 1 (2004): 56-68.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Kurashige, Scott. <em>The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles.<\/em> Princeton University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201cL.A. Housing Fight Looms as Japs Return.\u201d <em>Chicago Defender<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Jan. 13, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Leonard, Kevin. \u201c\u2018In the Interest of All Races\u2019: African Americans and Interracial Cooperation in Los Angeles During and After World War II.\u201d In <em>Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California<\/em>, edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor, 309- 340. University of Washington Press, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201cLittle Tokyo\u2019s Discord Aired at Conference.\u201d <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Mar. 4, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\u201cLos Angeles Groups Join Hands to Make Brotherhood a Reality.\u201d <em>Chicago Defender<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Mar. 15, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Potashin, Richard. \u201cMary Suzuki Ichino Interview II.\u201d Courtesy of the Manzanar National Historic Site Collection, Densho Digital Repository (Pasadena, CA), Dec. 3, 2008, 1:59:09.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Sides, Josh. L.A. <em>City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present<\/em>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Smith, J. Robert. \u201cThe Brighter Side.\u201d <em>San Bernardino Sun<\/em> (San Bernardino, CA), Feb. 5, 1948.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Snelson, Floyd G. \u201cLittle Tokyo Converted to Hodgepodge of Negroes, Japs.\u201d <em>Chicago Defender<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Sep. 22, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Streator, George. \u201cNegro Home Needs Rise as Coast Issue.\u201d<em> New York Times<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Apr. 27, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Takei, George. <em>To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek\u2019s Mr. Sulu.<\/em> Pocket Books, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>West, Irene. \u201cBronzeville May Revert to Little Tokyo.\u201d <em>Baltimore Afro-American<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Aug. 25, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>West, Irene. \u201cNo Hell to Pay as Japs Reclaim L.A.\u2019s Little Tokyo.\u201d <em>Baltimore Afro-American<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Aug. 17, 1946.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Yamamoto, Hisaye. \u201cSmall Talk.\u201d <em>Los Angeles Tribune<\/em> (Los Angeles, CA), Sep. 14, 1946.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Yamashita, Mariko, and Paul F. Clark. \u201cAn Oral History with Mitsuhiko H. Shimizu \u2013 Segment 1.\u201d Japanese American Oral History Project, CSU Japanese American Digitization Project, California State University (Fullerton, CA), 1978, 1:30:02.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wendi Zhou (Autumn 2020 student)\u00a0 After the end of Japanese American internment, many Japanese Americans returned to their homes in LA&#8217;s &#8220;Little Tokyo&#8221; to find it nicknamed &#8220;Bronzeville.&#8221; The area had been settled by African-American migrants who moved west during the Great Migration. 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