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Lecture 6Outline of Last Lecture I. L.A. is Burning film Outline of Current Lecture II. Finish filmIII. HerbertCurrent LectureDiscussion about the film: - Was there a resolution? What exactly do we mean by resolution?- There was respect given because they got everyone’s perspective, not just white and black people. Race-based restrictive covenants- 1920’s: South Central L.A. mostly all Black community. o KKKo Segregated swimming poolso Laws against miscegenation - Ex. If someone sold a house, they could specify that it could not be sold/rented to a certain race.o Blacks, Asians, and Latinos could only live there if they were employees to the white owners. - Educated African-Americans could only get jobs as janitors, etc. - 1914: Bus service only for whites. - Santa Monica Beach/Pier/Boardwalk: Only for whites. - Inkwell (near Pico): only for the Africans- 1948: Restrictive covenants rules illegal. o Still a lot of negativity when racial mixing happened. o Watts riots- 1978-82: plant closings -Herbert:o Policing Space: Territorial Control GEOG 3 1st Edition How do formal organizations of power, such as the police, work through practices of spatial control? What shapes the ways the police understand and engage in these practices? o This book is written on a particular perspective. o “Community policing”: a philosophy of policing that suggests an effort to increase communication between the police and the residents of the communities to which they are assigned and a forging of cooperative relationships between the two 1980: LAPD was 80% white. 2000: LAPD was:- 46% white- 33% Latino- 14% African American- 7% Asian 2002: 81% maleo Herbert’s methods: Ethnography: - A description of a culture; a description of the ways people live and make sense of their worlds (genre of writing).- It is also a research method that involves participant observation and inductive analysis- Inductive-developing theoretical ideas based on the analysis of particular instances- Participant observation: method of conducting research in which the researcher participates in the everyday activities of a group of people and thereby observes them and tries to understand their experiences and


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