receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011.

Matsumoto is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA.and the possibility of common belonging.

and their growing awareness of their place in American society.Her most recent publication in English is Race and Migration in the Transpacific.their motivations for moving to the U.

she is a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching from the UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association.(entrance on La Grange Avenue).

She is the author of Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging.

and Toyota describes the tensions around intergroup negotiations over race.On Saturday we ran responses from Councilmember Kevin de León.

Little Tokyo has been a gateway community where low-income immigrants and people of color could afford to settle after moving to Los Angeles.Nadine Momoyo DiazI am a third-generation constituent who was born in 1962.

In terms of the wealthiest constituents as well as the indigent constituents000 people — nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens — fell victim to the initiative.