Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Report: Place, Housing, and Racial Wealth Inequality in Los Angeles

Melany De La Cruz-Viesca; Paul M. Ong; Andre Comandon; William A. Darity; Darrick Hamilton

doi:10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08

Article Information

vol. 4 no. 6 160-184

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online September 1, 2018.

© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. De La Cruz-Viesca, Melany, Paul M. Ong, Andre Comandon, William A. Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton. 2018. “Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Report: Place, Housing, and Racial Wealth Inequality in Los Angeles.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(6): 160–84. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08. This research is made possible by the generous support of the Ford Foundation’s Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime initiative. We especially acknowledge our Ford Foundation Program Officers—Kilolo Kijakazi, Amy Brown, Leah Mayor, and John Irons. Funding was also provided by the UCLA Institute for American Cultures, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, and the Haynes Foundation. This research is also part of the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge’s (CNK) Kerner Revisited project. We are grateful to CNK staff, Chhandara Pech and Alycia Cheng, for their research and technical assistance. Direct correspondence to: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca at melanyd@ucla.edu, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 3230 Campbell Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Melany De La Cruz-Viesca^a,
Paul M. Ong^b,
Andre Comandon^c,
William A. Darity Jr.^d and
Darrick Hamilton^e

^aAssistant director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and managing editor of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Nexus Journal
^bResearch professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and director of the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
^cPhD student in the Department of Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs
^dSamuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University
^eDirector of the doctoral program in public and urban policy at the New School in New York, jointly appointed professor of economics and urban policy at the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy and the Department of Economics at the New School, and co-associate director of the Cook Center for Social Equity at Duke University