On page 315 of A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices, Sun Soon Kim recalls that the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 destroyed her version of the “American Dream.” In what ways did the racial tensions in Koreatown, and throughout Los Angeles, change the way most Korean immigrants viewed America? On page 320 of A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices, a L.A. gang member named Bone claims that the L.A. riots was “not a riot – it was a class struggle.” Why might have Bone referred to these riots as a class struggle and not a racial one? In A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices, page 347, Ronald Takaki writes that when he attended the College of Wooster, many of the students there did not see him
