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California Los Angeles Harlins, Latasha Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations Juvenile literature Racism California Los Angeles Racism California Los Angeles Juvenile literature Racisme Californie Los Angeles Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 Juvenile literature Women, BlackTaylor, Courtney Faye
Summary: ". . .Taylor delivers a layered elegy for Latasha Harlins, a 15-year-old Black girl killed by a Korean shopkeeper in 1992 during an uprising in response to the police beating of Rodney King. Harlins's death is symbolic for all murders of Black people, but Taylor carefully examines the event's particulars. Some of the collection's multimedia elements include photographs taken at the site of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: Paula Yoo's latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles's 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities. In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion dollars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024