Kyeyoung Park

University of California, Los Angeles

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Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles

Kyeyoung Park on KCRW

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Who Is LA, Twenty Years after the Riots?

In this second in a week of special programs, we consider how the Rodney King riot of 1992 shaped the city we know today.

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