As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalans outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the region’s smaller Latino populations, the subject of this series … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Bolivian Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Argentine Los Angeles
INTRODUCTION As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were "Hispanic of any race." The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the largest populations of Salvadorans and Guatemalans outside of their home countries. Often overlooked are the region's smaller Latino populations, the … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Argentine Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Canadian Los Angeles
Canadian Americans are a largely overlooked minority in the vast landscape of Los Angeles's diversity. Unlike immigrants from south of the Rio Grande, who are often the subject of public attention (whether celebrated, vilified, romanticized, ignored, or pandered to), those from north of the 49th Parallel are comparatively ignored and practically invisible. Los Angeles, after … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Canadian Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Tongan Los Angeles
As of the 2010 census, there were 57,183 Tongans living in the US, making them the fourth largest Pacific Islander group after Hawaiians, Samoans, and Chamorros. 22,893 Tongans then lived in California, with 6,489 calling the Inland Empire, Orange, or Los Angeles County home. In Los Angeles, the communities of Carson, Hawthorne, Ingelwood, Long Beach, Lennox, … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Tongan Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Laotian Los Angeles
California has by far the largest population of Laotian-Americans of any state, 58,424 as of 2010. There are large communities in both northern and southern California, with roughly 7,120 living in the Los Angeles area. There they maintain a relatively discreet profile, reflected mostly by the presence of a handful of restaurants either specializing in … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Laotian Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Samoan Los Angeles
Samoan-Americans are the second largest group of Pacific Islanders in the US, after Hawaiians. In fact, there are more Samoans living in the US than in the Samoan Islands. The largest population on the US mainland live in Los Angeles, home as of 2010 to 54,000. Nearby San Diego is home to 31,000. In neither … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Samoan Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Hmong Los Angeles
HMONG LOS ANGELES The Hmong are a stateless people who mostly live in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Approximately 281,000 Hmong lived in the US, as of the 2010 census, and the state with the largest population is California. While most California Hmong live in either Fresno or Sacramento Country, several thousand live in Southern California, … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Hmong Los Angeles
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No Enclave — Exploring Uyghur Los Angeles
Uyghurs are an Asian people who mostly live in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, which most view as their homeland. There are significant diasporic populations in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, and Russia. The US also has a small population, most of whom live in either the Washington, DC or Los Angeles metropolitan areas. Unrecognized by … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Uyghur Los Angeles
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Nobody Drives in LA — Asian-American Public Art on Public Transit
Every schoolchild hopefully learns about the 19th century Chinese immigrants who built America's rails, the largest network in the world (if embarrassingly outpaced and outdated). The moderately engaged Angeleno will have spied names like Nippon Sharyo, Kinki Sharyo, and Hyundai Rotem our modern (and not embarrassing) local urban trains and correctly surmised that the very trains are Asian immigrants of a non-human … Continue reading Nobody Drives in LA — Asian-American Public Art on Public Transit
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No Enclave — Exploring Afghan Los Angeles
Afghanistan is a country in Asia which most Americans probably spent little time thinking about before the 11 September attacks in 2001. Even after the subsequent US invasion and thirteen year occupation of Afghanistan, I don't recall ever seeing a single Afghan face in any media and I'd bet that most Americans wrongly think that Afghanistan is … Continue reading No Enclave — Exploring Afghan Los Angeles
Eric Brightwell 