Black or African-American?

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Stepping off the plane I was amazed at how diverse London was; Indian, Pakistani, African, etc. But I realized, someone growing up in London must feel the same way landing in LA; Chinese, Latino, etc. - we get used to our surroundings and they seem less foreign I suppose.

Reading a pretty nifty historical fiction right now called Southland, that links a bunch of characters in the past and present, who all came from the same L.A. neighborhood, Angeles Mesa (what is now the Crenshaw district). Completely fascinating to read about how Crenshaw was once a spacious, rural paradise, where Japanese and black families lived happily together...until WWII...internment camps...eventually the Watts riots, etc. It's almost a study in how a city was on the right path to becoming very integrated (at least amongst the minorities) and how it became increasingly segregated as time past.