The end of World War II brought many changes to the lives of minority populations in Los Angeles. After experiencing increased economic and housing opportunities during the war, Black communities struggled under renewed post-war segregation efforts. Conversely, Asian communities, particularly the Japanese, worked to overcome the effects of internment camps and immigration stereotypes that emerged during the war. Despite the universal experience of racism, the next twenty years in postwar Los Angeles determined a changing dynamic in minority housing experiences: Asians and Asian Americans gained opportunities while Black and African Americans continued to chafe against the constraints of racial segregation. Both minority groups experienced discrimination,
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After the removal of exclusionary restrictions in 1965, the Asian population greatly benefitted, as many of the children of immigrants grew up without significant restrictions to their housing opportunities. As a result, Asian immigrants gained access to a certain socioeconomic stature in Los Angeles that other minorities struggled to attain. In fact, “a significant number of these immigrants [came] to the United States already possessing the social and human capital that [enabled] them to exercise residential mobility, bypassing the ethnic enclaves others [had] to work their way out of” (Davis 169). Drawing heavily from the middle class, many Asians and Asian Americans possessed the economic funds to purchase acceptable housing (Davis 170). Unlike many Black and African American migrants already hindered as the descendants of slaves, Asian immigrants often came to the United States with skills and education, allowing access to socioeconomic movement within American society. When combined with this socioeconomic mobility, the removal of racially restrictive legislation marked the end to one of the final barriers preventing Asians and Asian Americans from achieving equal housing opportunity, thus benefitting the Asian communities more than the Black …show more content…
Greenberg
After the removal of exclusionary restrictions in 1965, the Asian population greatly benefitted, as many of the children of immigrants grew up without significant restrictions to their housing opportunities. As a result, Asian immigrants gained access to a certain socioeconomic stature in Los Angeles that other minorities struggled to attain. In fact, “a significant number of these immigrants [came] to the United States already possessing the social and human capital that [enabled] them to exercise residential mobility, bypassing the ethnic enclaves others [had] to work their way out of” (Davis 169). Drawing heavily from the middle class, many Asians and Asian Americans possessed the economic funds to purchase acceptable housing (Davis 170). Unlike many Black and African American migrants already hindered as the descendants of slaves, Asian immigrants often came to the United States with skills and education, allowing access to socioeconomic movement within American society. When combined with this socioeconomic mobility, the removal of racially restrictive legislation marked the end to one of the final barriers preventing Asians and Asian Americans from achieving equal housing opportunity, thus benefitting the Asian communities more than the Black …show more content…
Greenberg