Research Article
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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, Jr., Darrick Hamilton
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 160-184; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08
Melany De La Cruz-Viesca
aAssistant director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and managing editor of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Nexus Journal
Paul M. Ong
bResearch professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs and director of the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge
Andre Comandon
cPhD student in the Department of Urban Planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs
William A. Darity Jr.
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
Darrick Hamilton
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
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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2018, 4 (6) 160-184; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08
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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2018, 4 (6) 160-184; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.08