South Los Angeles

Areas of California like Los Angeles and Hollywood have helped develop the ideology of California as creating fame, success, and fortune, but current economic and environmental instability have altered its attractive identity. Many people no longer wish to live in California. Once admired for being “the place that never rains,” California’s lack of precipitation is now a growing concern. The low levels of rainfall are affecting the environment…

dominated schools would be terrorized by their peers and the black students began to fight back (Bastards of the Party 2005, 15:50). Eventually, racist white youths formed a gang called the Spook Hunters. The Spook Hunters would receive help from the Los Angeles Police Department. This forced African American youths to band together, but only they were called gangs and considered a…

Los Angeles County is the most dangerous place in California because of the gang culture that moves around it (Bartholomew, 2015). Cholo, ese, vato are all words that hispanic gang members use to refer to one another. Here in California, Hispanic gangs began to form during the early 1920s or as also referred to the Roaring Twenties. These groups started to form and get together in their neighborhoods or as known as the barrios. These individuals who got together in these groups all had similar…

gangs were started by Mexicans. Unlike New York and Chicago street gangs in this region consisted of young Mexican men, Mexican palomilla (a “male cohorting tradition” (Sage Pub)), and boy gangs that were created in the inner cities of Mexico and Los Angeles. Many children came to the United States for a short period of time then moved back home to Mexico, where they introduced the gang life to other Mexican children. According to Sage Pub those same children, later moved to America already…

a. Culture/pg. 34: The language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterize a group and are passed from one generation to the next. Culture is a broad term describing the way people live. Each area in the world occupies a different culture. Each culture therefore has its own norms and expectations. In the United States we have the culture described as being a melting pot. One agreement across all cultures that occupy and exist in the United States is the…

A boy walks down the street, talking with his friends, thinking about what he is going to have for supper. Shots ring out and he suddenly falls to the ground. His friends look down at his suddenly still, lifeless body. He was the victim of a gang shooting. Even though he was a young, innocent boy, gang violence ended his life. Gang violence can affect even the most unexpected of people. Every year, over 2,000 gang-related homicides occur (“National”). By noticing how gang violence has changed…

baggy jeans and long white or black oversized t-shirts, some times with ball caps. You can usually tell what gang someone is associated with by the color of shirt and pants they are wearing. Drug trafficking was spreading out of the streets of Los Angeles which was making gangs become richer, better organized and more strapped. Money was everything men lived for and they did anything to get it, but that does not mean they were smart with it. People who grow up in low income communities are more…

but not often is it the truth, and not often does it represent any significant part of their life story. Although I look like I might have lived in Oregon my whole life, I have actually moved seven times, beginning in the valleys and suburbs of Los Angeles. The first eight years of my life were relatively peaceful, living in a large home only an hours drive away from Hollywood. After years of this relatively easy life, the building tensions between my parents reached their climax when the…

Americans. The bad economy and prejudice from the law enforcement fueled these new generation with a kind of hatred they can act upon. This was a recipe that would eventually lead to huge riot in the middle of Los Angeles County in the city of Watts. The documentary described the city of South Central as a black community as a safe environment whereas today, it is known as a city to avoid at a cost because it is so dangerous. The documentary started off by describing how it was just a suburb…

Introduction As social workers play an important role in society in order to meet the needs of those with problems, it is the social worker that intervenes in order to better their everyday lives. When a social worker is placed to better the lives of others knowing the ways of living, culture, and their communities becomes a viral part in addressing the problems in order to get solutions. As social workers reach out to the people and explore their customs of living can help acclimate to the…