Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District

Angie Y. Chung & Sookhee Oh — 2018-06-19T05:00:00Z

In this piece on Koreans in Los Angeles' garment industry, sociologists Angie Chung and Sookhee Oh discuss the external factors that influence ethnic solidarity. In doing so, they treat as fluid and changing a category often taken for granted as stable and fixed.
In April 2017, the news broke that Forever 21, a fast-growing clothing retailer, was under federal investigation for using factory sweatshops to manufacture its trendy clothing lines. The company is owned by one of the most

- From the Field / Los Angeles, Koreatown, social networks, ethnic solidarity, Los Angeles Fashion District, clothing manufacture, textile industry, apparel industry

The Everyday Activism of Chicago's Public High-School Football Coaches

Lawrence Johnson — 2018-03-13T06:00:00Z

For several generations, high-school football programs have been an important part of the social fabric in economically challenged Chicago neighborhoods. Sociologist Lawrence Johnson, himself a former player in the Chicago Public League, draws on in-depth interviews with coaches and players to conclude that policies being pursued by city officials in the name of educational choice and reform are ripping this fabric apart.
A tearing social fabric
Ebony Magazine published an article in 1963

- From the Field / Chicago, sport, education, school, education reform, social networks, high-school football, football coaches, school restructuring

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Paving the Silk Road: Rethinking Ethnic Solidarity in Los Angeles' Korean Garment District

The Everyday Activism of Chicago's Public High-School Football Coaches