Journal articles: 'South Los Angeles'

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de Graaf, L. B. "Post-ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles." Journal of American History 100, no. 2 (2013): 608–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jat208.

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Suarez, Rafael. "The U.S. in South Africa." Worldview 28, no. 5 (1985): 9–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0084255900046179.

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Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, in conflict with both the current South African Government and supporters of violent revolutionary action, is said to offer a nonviolent, multiracial, and liberal-democratic approach to the struggle against apartheid. The controversial Zulu chief, chief minister of the tribal “homeland” of KwaZulu, and leader of the (legal) Inkatha movement in South Africa, was interviewed on February 18 at Occidental College, Los Angeles, during a ten-day tour of the United States. Rafael Suarez, Jr., is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for Cable News Network, through whose courtesy this interview has been made available to Worldview.

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Comandon, Andre, and Paul Ong. "South Los Angeles Since the 1960s: Race, Place, and Class." Review of Black Political Economy 47, no. 1 (2019): 50–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0034644619873105.

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South Los Angeles embodies a complex history that captures the dynamics of spatial inequality. It is an area where some of the largest protests reacting to a system of racial oppression have imprinted a persistent image on the names South Central and Watts. This article analyzes how the stigma attached to the South Los Angeles area has translated to place specific forms of inequality. We take advantage of the consistency in the boundaries the Census used to collect data in the area from 1960 to 2016 to test hypotheses about the relative importance of race, place, and economic class in the Los Angeles region. The analysis revolves around three themes critical to furthering equality: housing, employment, and transportation. We find that the significance of place has changed significantly over the course of half a century without ever disappearing. In each of the themes we study, the significance of the factors we highlight changes, but South Los Angeles remains disadvantaged relative to the region.

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Rose, Peter I. "South‐central Los Angeles: Reaping the whirlwind." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 21, no. 4 (1995): 599–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.1995.9976515.

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Torres-Rouff, David. "Book Review: Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles." Southern California Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2013): 240–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2013.95.2.240.

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Larson, Tom. "An economic view of South Central Los Angeles." Cities 15, no. 3 (1998): 193–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0264-2751(98)00007-9.

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Mayorga–Gallo, Sarah. "Book Review: Post–Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles." City & Community 14, no. 2 (2015): 233–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12104.

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Salim, Zia. "Book review: Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles." Urban Studies 51, no. 8 (2014): 1761–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098014526931.

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Sharma, Sarah, and Armonds R. Towns. "Ceasing Fire and Seizing Time." Transfers 6, no. 1 (2016): 26–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2016.060104.

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LA Gang Tours went on its inaugural ride through Los Angeles in 2010. Black and Latino former gang members from South Los Angeles lead the bus tours, sharing personal stories of gang life with mostly white tourists. A popular critique of the tour is that it facilitates a tourist gaze. However, we argue that to focus on the tourist gaze misses a more pressing opportunity to examine the production of whiteness. We shift the focus to consider the bus’s movement and the power it exerts in transforming the spatial and temporal dynamics of South Los Angeles. Based on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and discourse analysis of materials surrounding the tours, we found that the tour lays the figurative foundations for gentrifi cation and reconfi rms a white control of mobility in the neighborhood. Th is white control of mobility extends beyond Los Angeles to impact the lives of people of color throughout the United States.

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RYAN, MARY P. "A durable centre of urban space: the Los Angeles Plaza." Urban History 33, no. 3 (2006): 457–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s096392680600407x.

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This article searches for the historic centre of Los Angeles, California, the archetype of urban sprawl. Taking maps and photographs as its principal sources it finds an enduring urban centre in a plaza designed by the Spanish in 1781 and occupied by Mexicans until the US army conquered the city in 1847. The Plaza anchored the dispersed ranch land of the Pueblo of Los Angeles and was the magnet for commercial development during the first decades of American settlement. Between 1850 and 1880, Anglo immigrants built up the south-western side of the Plaza with shops and civic buildings creating a hybrid and bicultural centre, a compression of Main Street and the Plaza. After 1880 a process of spatial mitosis occurred as commerce and municipal functions moved down Main Street and melded into a modern downtown. Since then the skyscrapers downtown have overshadowed but not displaced the old Plaza, which still serves as social, symbolic and ceremonial space for Angelenos, especially immigrants from Latin America. The durability of the Plaza and its direct successors, Main Street and Downtown, not only designate a centre for Los Angeles, but articulate a distinctive urban morphology, that of a centrifugal metropolis rather than fragmented city or sprawl of suburbs.

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Navarro, Armando. "The South Central Los Angeles Eruption: A Latino Perspective." Amerasia Journal 19, no. 2 (1993): 69–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/amer.19.2.97p2744035243248.

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Hutchinson, Sikivu. "Feminist Pedagogy and Youth Advocacy in South Los Angeles." International Journal of Learning: Annual Review 11, no. 1 (2005): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v11/58536.

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Ciria-Cruz, Rene P. "To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles." NACLA Report on the Americas 40, no. 3 (2007): 37–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2007.11725364.

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Alexander, Bryant Keith. "Dreamscapes and Escapedreams." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 10, no. 1 (2021): 121–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.1.121.

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Using the artwork of Southern-born but Los Angeles-based artist Jerry Weems, this performative autoethnography engages artistic renderings of Black Southern cultural life as lived and historicized; as nostalgia and hauntology; as remembrance and recovery; between the there-and-then and the here-and-now. All of this invokes my own lived experience as a Black man from the South now living in Los Angeles.

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Sonenshein, Raphael J. "The Battle over Liquor Stores in South Central Los Angeles." Urban Affairs Review 31, no. 6 (1996): 710–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107808749603100602.

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Rothenberg, Stephen J., Freddie A. Williams, Sandra Delrahim, et al. "Blood Lead Levels in Children in South Central Los Angeles." Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal 51, no. 5 (1996): 383–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00039896.1996.9934426.

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Kaplan, Elaine Bell. "Catching Hell in the City of Angels: Life and Meanings of Blackness in South Central Los Angeles." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 37, no. 2 (2008): 125–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610803700211.

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Leal, Jorge N. "Mapping Ephemeral Music Forums in Latina/o Los Angeles." California History 97, no. 2 (2020): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.2.124.

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This essay examines how maps created by Latina/o youth created “ephemeral forums,” improvised ad hoc spaces that served as music venues in 1990s South Los Angeles. The maps included on “Rock en Español” event flyers demonstrate how Latinx youth envisioned Los Angeles and proclaimed their sense of place in the metropolis at a moment of social and demographic transformation. These maps help us understand how they and other Californians of color create and claim belonging,both past and present.

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Wilkinson, Cheryl L. "The Soldiers’ City." Southern California Quarterly 95, no. 2 (2013): 188–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/scq.2013.95.2.188.

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The Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, a domicile and hospital for Union veterans of the Civil War, opened west of Los Angeles in 1888 on land donated by real-estate developers. Barrett Villa Tract, a development of small plots later renamed Sawtelle, was established outside the south gate of the Soldiers’ Home. There veterans bought homes where they could “live out” and enjoy family life while continuing to avail themselves of the services of the Pacific Branch. Sawtelle incorporated as a city in 1906 but consolidated with Los Angeles in 1922. Issues of Pacific Branch members’ votes, behavior, and community leadership mark Sawtelle’s history. Union veterans played a significant role in the development of West Los Angeles.

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Lichtenberg, Donovan R. "Summary of the Report of the NCTM-MAA Task Force on the Mathematics Curriculum for Grades 11-13." Mathematics Teacher 81, no. 6 (1988): 442–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.81.6.0442.

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Early in 1986, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America established a joint Task Force on the Mathematics Curriculum for Grades 11- 13. The task force consisted of a five-person executive committee and a sixteen-member corresponding committee. The members of the executive committee were Joan Leitzel, chair, of Ohio State University; Philip Curtis of the University of California, Los Angeles; Charles Hamberg of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy; Donovan Lichtenberg of the University of South Florida: and Ann Watkins of Los Angeles Pierce College.

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Subica, Andrew M., and Jason A. Douglas. "Engaging Disadvantaged Communities in Targeting Tobacco-Related Health Disparities and Other Health Inequities." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 40, no. 1 (2019): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272684x19839866.

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Tobacco-related health disparities (TRHD) (e.g., respiratory disease, cancer) have been repeatedly shown to disproportionately affect individuals living in disadvantaged communities. In our recent community-guided geospatial study, we found evidence for a previously unrecognized TRHD involving tobacco shops, which were associated with increased crime and violence in South Los Angeles: a large, disadvantaged urban community. Our findings revealed tobacco shops may directly endanger the health of community residents in South Los Angeles by negatively shaping neighborhood crime and violence. In this commentary, we explore reasons why tobacco shops may perpetuate TRHDs and other health disparities in disadvantaged communities. Using our study as a case example, we further describe how community-partnered research grounded in community-based participatory research principles may empower stakeholders in disadvantaged communities to generate positive downstream outcomes such as tobacco-related policy changes.

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Lucas-Wright, Aziza, Petra Duran, Mohsen Bazargan, Claudia Vargas, and Annette E. Maxwell. "Cancer-related Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors within the Latino Faith Community in South Los Angeles." Ethnicity & Disease 29, no. 2 (2019): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.29.2.239.

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Objectives: The goal of this study was to establish relationships with Latino churches in South Los Angeles and to collect data from parishioners regarding their access to care, cancer risk factors, and cancer-related knowledge, attitudes and screening.Methods: In 2014, we approached five Latino churches. All allowed us to describe the study and to consent potential respondents at a designated time during the church service.Results: 398 Latino respondents (75% female) completed the survey in English (15%) or Spanish (85%). Most respondents were born in Mexico (63%). Only 56% had health insurance and 51% had a regular doctor. Based on self-reported height and weight, 33% were overweight and 51% were obese. However, only 42% of obese respondents had been told by their doctor that they were obese. Although it is well-established that obesity is a major cancer risk factor, respondents lacked knowledge about the important role of nutrition and exercise in cancer prevention. Among women, adherence to national screening guidelines was 88% for cervical cancer, 72% for breast cancer and 58% for colorectal cancer. However, they were quite willing to undergo cancer screening if recommended by a physician and reported few barriers to colorectal cancer screening.Conclusions: Our data suggest a need to focus on both primary and secondary cancer prevention by promoting healthy lifestyles to curb the obesity epidemic and by promoting colorectal cancer screening. These data will inform future interventions to promote wellness in South Los Angeles in collaboration with the Latino faith community. Ethn Dis. 2019;29(2):239-246; doi:10.18865/ed.29.2.239

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Gunewardena, Nandini. "Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles by Karen Brodkin." North American Dialogue 13, no. 1 (2010): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4819.2010.01027.x.

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Rothenberg, Stephen J., Mario Manalo, Jian Jiang, et al. "Maternal Blood Lead Level During Pregnancy in South Central Los Angeles." Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal 54, no. 3 (1999): 151–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00039899909602253.

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Hauksson, Egill. "Seismotectonics of the Newport-Inglewood fault zone in the Los Angeles basin, southern California." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 77, no. 2 (1987): 539–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/bssa0770020539.

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Abstract The Newport-Inglewood fault zone (NIF) strikes northwest along the western margin of the Los Angeles basin in southern California. The seismicity (1973 to 1985) of ML ≧ 2.5 that occurred within a 20-km-wide rectangle centered on the NIF extending from the Santa Monica fault in the north to Newport Beach in the south is analyzed. A simultaneous full inversion scheme (VELEST) is used to invert for hypocentral parameters, two velocity models, and a set of station delays. Arrival time data from three quarry blasts are included to stabilize the inversion. The first velocity model applies to stations located along the rim and outside the Los Angeles basin and is well resolved. It is almost identical to the starting model, which is the model routinely used by the CIT/USGS southern California seismic network for locating local earthquakes. The second velocity model applies to stations located within the Los Angeles basin. It shows significantly lower velocities down to depths of 12 to 16 km, which is consistent with basement of Catalina Schist below the sediments in the western Los Angeles basin. The distribution of relocated hypocenters shows an improved correspondence to mapped surface traces of late Quaternary fault segments of the NIF. A diffuse trend of seismicity is observed along the Inglewood fault from the Dominguez Hills, across the Baldwin Hills to the Santa Monica fault in the north. The seismicity adjacent to Long Beach, however, is offset 4 to 5 km to the east, near the trace of the subsurface Los Alamitos fault. The depth distribution of earthquakes along the NIF shows clustering from 6 to 11 km depth, which is similar to average seismogenic depths in southern California. Thirty-nine single-event focal mechanisms of small earthquakes (1977 to 1985) show mostly strike-slip faulting with some reverse faulting along the north segment (north of Dominguez Hills) and some normal faulting along the south segment (south of Dominguez Hills to Newport Beach). The results of an inversion of the focal mechanism data for orientations of the principal stress axes and their relative magnitudes indicate that the minimum principal stress is vertical along the north segment while the intermediate stress is vertical along the south segment. The maximum principal stress axis is oriented 10° to 25° east of north. Reverse faulting along the north segment indicates that a transition zone of mostly compressive deformation exists between the Los Angeles block and the Central Transverse Ranges.

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Lee, Sangjoon. "Hawaii, Cannes, and Los Angeles: Projecting South Korean Cinema to the World." International Journal of Korean History 23, no. 1 (2018): 123–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22372/ijkh.2018.23.1.123.

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Lewis, LaVonna Blair, David C. Sloane, Lori Miller Nascimento, et al. "African Americans’ Access to Healthy Food Options in South Los Angeles Restaurants." American Journal of Public Health 95, no. 4 (2005): 668–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2004.050260.

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Wenzel, Andrea, Daniela Gerson, Evelyn Moreno, Minhee Son, and Breanna Morrison Hawkins. "Engaging stigmatized communities through solutions journalism: Residents of South Los Angeles respond." Journalism 19, no. 5 (2017): 649–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884917703125.

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In many communities across the United States, substantive local news is a rare commodity. For areas long stigmatized and associated with high levels of violence, crime, and poverty, negative reporting may be the only local news available. Drawing from communication infrastructure theory and literature on local news audiences and civic journalism, this study explores how a local solutions journalism project is received by members of an underrepresented and stigmatized community. Solutions journalism stories focus on responses to social problems, usually exploring problem-solving efforts that have the potential to be scaled. This case examines how participants in six focus groups with 48 African-American and Latino South Los Angeles residents responded to solutions-oriented stories produced by a local media project. Study findings illustrate how residents navigate and critically interpret local media coverage, and how their response to ‘solutions journalism’ is largely positive but tempered by concerns regarding structural inequalities.

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Myers, Deborah, Heidi Kent, and Steve Baranov. "The Joys and Challenges of Promoting Breastfeeding in South Central Los Angeles." Journal of Human Lactation 9, no. 4 (1993): 284–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089033449300900451.

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Singer, Ross. "Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles." Environmental Communication 5, no. 3 (2011): 344–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2011.593638.

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Kovalesky, Brian. "Unification and Its Discontents." California History 93, no. 2 (2016): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2016.93.2.4.

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, during the height of protests and actions by civil rights activists around de facto school segregation in the Los Angeles area, the residents of a group of small cities just southeast of the City of Los Angeles fought to break away from the Los Angeles City Schools and create a new, independent school district—one that would help preserve racially segregated schools in the area. The “Four Cities” coalition was comprised of residents of the majority white, working-class cities of Vernon, Maywood, Huntington Park, and Bell—all of which had joined the Los Angeles City Schools in the 1920s and 1930s rather than continue to operate local districts. The coalition later expanded to include residents of the cities of South Gate, Cudahy, and some unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, although Vernon was eventually excluded. The Four Cities coalition petitioned for the new district in response to a planned merger of the Los Angeles City Schools—until this time comprised of separate elementary and high school districts—into the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The coalition's strategy was to utilize a provision of the district unification process that allowed citizens to petition for reconfiguration or redrawing of boundaries. Unification was encouraged by the California State Board of Education and legislature in order to combine the administrative functions of separate primary and secondary school districts—the dominant model up to this time—to better serve the state's rapidly growing population of children and their educational needs, and was being deliberated in communities across the state and throughout Los Angeles County. The debates at the time over school district unification in the Greater Los Angeles area, like the one over the Four Cities proposal, were inextricably tied to larger issues, such as taxation, control of community institutions, the size and role of state and county government, and racial segregation. At the same time that civil rights activists in the area and the state government alike were articulating a vision of public schools that was more inclusive and demanded larger-scale, consolidated administration, the unification process reveals an often-overlooked grassroots activism among residents of the majority white, working-class cities surrounding Los Angeles that put forward a vision of exclusionary, smaller-scale school districts based on notions of local control and what they termed “community identity.”

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Strom, Sharon Hartman. "Spiritualist Angels, Masonic Stars, and the Douglass Temple of Universal Brotherhood." California History 95, no. 2 (2018): 2–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2018.95.2.2.

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Between 1900 and 1930, Los Angeles attracted thousands of white and black migrants from the Midwest and the South. Many had attachments to Protestant churches. But they also arrived with commitments to Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and social reform causes. This paper argues that these religionists in Los Angeles covered a broad spectrum of faiths, including Free Thought, innovative versions of Protestantism, and Freemasonry, and that traditional accounts of religion in the city have ignored these aspects of religious life and civic engagement. As World War I ushered in conservatism in every aspect of public life, the Los Angeles Times, the City Council, and the Protestant churches combined in an effort to squash these challenges to orthodoxy. In profiling two prominent Spiritualists, African American George W. Shields and white midwesterner Cynthia Lisetta Vose, this article illustrates the wide ranging civil and religious engagement of two committed Spiritualists. By the end of the 1920s, the fragmentation of Los Angeles neighborhoods and the growing racism of the city had nearly destroyed what had been a vigorous religion and a thriving commitment to progressive reform. Segregated white women's clubs and Freemasonry organizations turned the worship of California into a replacement for older forms of religious practice and civic engagement.

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Adinkrah, Edward, Mohsen Bazargan, Cheryl Wisseh, and Shervin Assari. "Medication Complexity among Disadvantaged African American Seniors in Los Angeles." Pharmacy 8, no. 2 (2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy8020086.

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Background. Several publications highlight data concerning multiple chronic conditions and the medication regimen complexity (MRC) used in managing these conditions as well as MRCs’ association with polypharmacy and medication non-adherence. However, there is a paucity of literature that specifically details the correlates of MRC with multimorbidity, socioeconomic, physical and mental health factors in disadvantaged (medically underserved, low income) African American (AA) seniors. Aims. In a local sample in South Los Angeles, we investigated correlates of MRC in African American older adults with chronic disease(s). Methods. This was a community-based survey in South Los Angeles with 709 African American senior participants (55 years and older). Age, gender, continuity of care, educational attainment, multimorbidity, financial constraints, marital status, and MRC (outcome) were measured. Data were analyzed using linear regression. Results. Higher MRC correlated with female gender, a higher number of healthcare providers, hospitalization events and multimorbidity. However, there were no associations between MRC and age, level of education, financial constraint, living arrangements or health maintenance organization (HMO) membership. Conclusions. Disadvantaged African Americans, particularly female older adults with multimorbidity, who also have multiple healthcare providers and medications, use the most complex medication regimens. It is imperative that MRC is reduced particularly in African American older adults with multimorbidity.

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Parish, Thomas R., David A. Rahn, and Dave Leon. "Airborne Observations of a Catalina Eddy." Monthly Weather Review 141, no. 10 (2013): 3300–3313. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-13-00029.1.

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Abstract Summertime low-level winds over the ocean adjacent to the California coast are typically from the north, roughly parallel to the coastline. Past Point Conception the flow often turns eastward, thereby generating cyclonic vorticity in the California Bight. Clouds are frequently present when the cyclonic motion is well developed and at such times the circulation is referred to as a Catalina eddy. Onshore flow south of the California Bight associated with the eddy circulation can result in a thickening of the low-level marine stratus adjacent to the coast. During nighttime hours the marine stratus typically expands over a larger area and moves northward along the coast with the cyclonic circulation. A Catalina eddy was captured during the Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment in June of 2012. Measurements were made of the cloud structure in the marine layer and the horizontal pressure field associated with the cyclonic circulation using the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft. Airborne measurements show that the coastal mountains to the south of Los Angeles block the flow, resulting in enhanced marine stratus heights and a local pressure maximum near the coast. The horizontal pressure field also supports a south–north movement of marine stratus. Little evidence of leeside troughing south of Santa Barbara, California, was observed for this case, implying that the horizontal pressure field is forced primarily through topographic blocking by the coastal terrain south of Los Angeles, California, and the ambient large-scale circulation associated with the mean flow.

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Krishnan, Swaminathan, Chen Ji, Dimitri Komatitsch, and Jeroen Tromp. "Performance of Two 18-Story Steel Moment-Frame Buildings in Southern California during Two Large Simulated San Andreas Earthquakes." Earthquake Spectra 22, no. 4 (2006): 1035–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/1.2360698.

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Using state-of-the-art computational tools in seismology and structural engineering, validated using data from the Mw=6.7 January 1994 Northridge earthquake, we determine the damage to two 18-story steel moment-frame buildings, one existing and one new, located in southern California due to ground motions from two hypothetical magnitude 7.9 earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault. The new building has the same configuration as the existing building but has been redesigned to current building code standards. Two cases are considered: rupture initiating at Parkfield and propagating from north to south, and rupture propagating from south to north and terminating at Parkfield. Severe damage occurs in these buildings at many locations in the region in the north-to-south rupture scenario. Peak velocities of 1 m.s−1 and 2 m.s−1 occur in the Los Angeles Basin and San Fernando Valley, respectively, while the corresponding peak displacements are about 1 m and 2 m, respectively. Peak interstory drifts in the two buildings exceed 0.10 and 0.06 in many areas of the San Fernando Valley and the Los Angeles Basin, respectively. The redesigned building performs significantly better than the existing building; however, its improved design based on the 1997 Uniform Building Code is still not adequate to prevent serious damage. The results from the south-to-north scenario are not as alarming, although damage is serious enough to cause significant business interruption and compromise life safety.

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Garth, Hanna, and Michael G. Powell. "Rebranding a South Los Angeles Corner Store: The Unique Logic of Retail Brands." Journal of Business Anthropology 6, no. 2 (2017): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/jba.v6i2.5411.

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Retail brands are important mediators of culture and value that help us understand contemporary consumption. Drawing on a collaborative ethnographic approach to a corner store-rebranding project in South Los Angeles, we demonstrate the ways in which physical retail spaces and their curated product mix can shape specific types of shopping experiences and behaviors. Building on recent studies of brand, we argue that retail curation is another important consideration for understanding how brand communications are formed, filtered and expressed. Expanding on theorizations of brand we demonstrate how retail brands, as physical sites of experience, can attempt to influence relationships between consumption, identity and behavior.

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Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia. "Multiculturalisme et marginalisation à Los Angeles. De Watts (1965) à South Central (1992)." Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire 40, no. 1 (1993): 23–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/xxs.1993.2997.

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Ghorra-Gobin, Cynthia. "Multiculturalisme et marginalisation a Los Angeles. De Watts (1965) a South Central (1992)." Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, no. 40 (October 1993): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3770355.

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Evans, Meghan C., Sharon Cobb, James Smith, Mohsen Bazargan, and Shervin Assari. "Depressive Symptoms among Economically Disadvantaged African American Older Adults in South Los Angeles." Brain Sciences 9, no. 10 (2019): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9100246.

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Background: Although social, behavioral, and health factors correlate with depressive symptoms, less is known about these links among economically disadvantaged African American (AA) older adults. Objective: To study social, behavioral, and health correlates of depressive symptoms among economically disadvantaged AA older adults. Methods: This survey was conducted in South Los Angeles between 2015 and 2018. A total number of 740 AA older adults (age ≥55 years) were entered to this study. Independent variables were gender, age, educational attainment, financial difficulties, living alone, marital status, smoking, drinking, chronic medical conditions (CMCs), and pain intensity. The dependent variable was depressive symptoms. Linear regression model was used to analyze the data. Results: Age, financial difficulties, smoking, CMCs, and pain intensity were associated with depressive symptoms. Gender, educational attainment, living arrangement, marital status, and drinking were not associated with depressive symptoms. Conclusion: Factors such as age, financial difficulties, smoking, CMCs, and pain may inform programs that wish to screen high risk economically disadvantaged AA older adults for depressive symptoms.

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Bazargan, Mohsen, James Smith, Sharon Cobb, et al. "Emergency Department Utilization among Underserved African American Older Adults in South Los Angeles." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 7 (2019): 1175. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071175.

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Objectives: Using the Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Services Use, we explored social, behavioral, and health factors that are associated with emergency department (ED) utilization among underserved African American (AA) older adults in one of the most economically disadvantaged urban areas in South Los Angeles, California. Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited a convenience sample of 609 non-institutionalized AA older adults (age ≥ 65 years) from South Los Angeles, California. Participants were interviewed for demographic factors, self-rated health, chronic medication conditions (CMCs), pain, depressive symptoms, access to care, and continuity of care. Outcomes included 1 or 2+ ED visits in the last 12 months. Polynomial regression was used for data analysis. Results: Almost 41% of participants were treated at an ED during the last 12 months. In all, 27% of participants attended an ED once and 14% two or more times. Half of those with 6+ chronic conditions reported being treated at an ED once; one quarter at least twice. Factors that predicted no ED visit were male gender (OR = 0.50, 95% CI = 0.29–0.85), higher continuity of medical care (OR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.04–2.31), individuals with two CMCs or less (OR = 2.61 (1.03–6.59), second tertile of pain severity (OR = 2.80, 95% CI = 1.36–5.73). Factors that predicted only one ED visit were male gender (OR = 0.45, 95% CI = 0.25–0.82), higher continuity of medical care (OR = 1.39, 95% CI = 1.01–2.15) and second tertile of pain severity (OR = 2.42, 95% CI = 1.13–5.19). Conclusions: This study documented that a lack of continuity of care for individuals with multiple chronic conditions leads to a higher rate of ED presentations. The results are significant given that ED visits may contribute to health disparities among AA older adults. Future research should examine whether case management decreases ED utilization among underserved AA older adults with multiple chronic conditions and/or severe pain. To explore the generalizability of these findings, the study should be repeated in other settings.

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Bishop, Gary A. "Three decades of on-road mobile source emissions reductions in South Los Angeles." Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 69, no. 8 (2019): 967–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1611677.

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Mobasher, Zahra, Lisa V. Smith, Ashley Stegall, et al. "Community-based Flu Outreach Clinics in South Los Angeles: Client Satisfaction and Experiences." Public Health Nursing 34, no. 3 (2017): 276–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phn.12313.

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Costa Vargas, João H. "Jazz and Male Blackness: The Politics of Sociability in South Central Los Angeles." Popular Music and Society 31, no. 1 (2008): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007760601062983.

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Stokes, Benjamin, George Villanueva, François Bar, and Sandra Ball-Rokeach. "Mobile Design as Neighborhood Acupuncture: Activating the Storytelling Networks of South Los Angeles." Journal of Urban Technology 22, no. 3 (2015): 55–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2015.1040292.

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Roussell, Aaron. "Policing the Anticommunity: Race, Deterritorialization, and Labor Market Reorganization in South Los Angeles." Law & Society Review 49, no. 4 (2015): 813–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12168.

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Rothenberg, Stephen J., Mario Manalo, Jian Jiang, et al. "Blood Lead Level and Blood Pressure During Pregnancy in South Central Los Angeles." Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal 54, no. 6 (1999): 382–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00039899909603369.

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Broad, Garrett M., Carmen Gonzalez, and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach. "Intergroup relations in South Los Angeles – Combining communication infrastructure and contact hypothesis approaches." International Journal of Intercultural Relations 38 (January 2014): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2013.06.001.

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Rosas, Ana Elizabeth. "Some Children Left Behind." Boom 2, no. 3 (2012): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2012.2.3.79.

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Using a combination of oral life history interviews, field observation, and conversations with undocumented Mexican immigrant parents raising children born in the United States in South Central Los Angeles, California, this in-depth consideration of the state of emergency they face as a result of the U.S. government's implementation of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) and Secure Communities Program (SCP) reveals their uniquely local and transnational confrontation of an increasingly insecure family situation that stretches across the U.S.-Mexico border and throughout U.S. inner cities, like South Central Los Angeles. The visibly public alienation these children, most recently identified as citizen kids endure makes evident that tragically they are most vulnerable to the indignities born out of these programs. The convergence of minor offenses committed by their parents, the illegality of their immigration status, and these children's U.S. citizenship status have paved the way for an incalculable loss that is most palpable when pausing to observe their multifaceted alienation. The relationship between these children's citizenship status, family relationships, day to day interactions, and these program's implementation reveals an underestimated yet infinitely tragic state of emergency.

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Montgomery, Alesia F. "“Living in Each Other's Pockets”: The Navigation of Social Distances by Middle Class Families in Los Angeles." City & Community 5, no. 4 (2006): 425–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2006.00192.x.

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In Hollywood movies and dystopian critiques, Los Angeles is two cities: one wealthy, white, and gated, the other impoverished, dark, and carceral. This depiction verges on caricature, eliding the diversity and maneuvers of the region's middle class. Drawing upon ethnographies of middle class families (black, white, Latino, Asian) in affluent areas of West Los Angeles and the Valley and in the low‐income areas that are located south and east of downtown Los Angeles, I explore how and why, and at what costs, parents engage in daily maneuvers to place their children in beneficial settings across the region's vast sprawl. I describe these maneuvers that resemble a game of “musical chairs” as selective flight. In contrast to middle class flight to the suburbs, selective flight involves diurnal rather than residential shifts. Enabling middle‐class families who reside amidst the crumbling infrastructure of the urban core to chase cultural capital and physical safety in ever‐receding advantaged areas, the post‐Civil Rights State expands spatial mobility yet does not close racial distances. The pursuit of ever‐receding spaces of advantage is particularly paradoxical and burdensome for black middle‐class parents.

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Cobb, Sharon, Mohsen Bazargan, James Smith, Homero E. del Pino, Kimberly Dorrah, and Shervin Assari. "Marijuana Use among African American Older Adults in Economically Challenged Areas of South Los Angeles." Brain Sciences 9, no. 7 (2019): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9070166.

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Purpose: This study explored demographic, social, behavioral, and health factors associated with current marijuana use (MU) among African American older adults who were residing in economically challenged areas of south Los Angeles. Methods: This community-based study recruited a consecutive sample of African American older adults (n = 340), age ≥ 55 years, residing in economically challenged areas of South Los Angeles. Interviews were conducted to collect data. Demographics (age and gender), socioeconomic status (educational attainment, income, and financial strain), marital status, living alone, health behaviors (alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking), health status (number of chronic medical conditions, body mass index, depression, and chronic pain), and current MU were collected. Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. Results: Thirty (9.1%) participants reported current MU. Age, educational attainment, chronic medical conditions, and obesity were negatively associated with current MU. Gender, income, financial strain, living alone, marital status, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, depression, and pain did not correlate with MU. Conclusion: Current MU is more common in younger, healthier, less obese, less educated African American older adults. It does not seem that African American older adults use marijuana for the self-medication of chronic disease, pain, or depression. For African American older adults, MU also does not co-occur with cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. These results may help clinicians who provide services for older African Americans in economically challenged urban areas.

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