A Tale of Two Cities: Bronzeville, Little Tokyo & Post WWII Racial Geographies

A Tale of Two Cities: Bronzeville, Little Tokyo & Post WWII Racial Geographies

In this lesson, students will engage with a key text to explore the impact of structural racism through the lens of state-sanctioned displacement, WWII Japanese Incarceration, and pervasive anti-Blackness within the Bronzeville/Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Lesson Objectives:

1. Engage with a key text to explore the impact of state-sanctioned displacement and Japanese Incarceration on a community within Los Angeles

2. Conduct close reading to analyze the main points of a text

3. Activate the archive by analyzing primary source documents to excavate their historical significance

This lesson plan kit includes:

• One (1) slide deck presentation entitled "A Tale of Two Cities: Bronzeville, Little Tokyo & Post WWII Racial Geographies "

• Anchoring text for students: "Bronzeville, Little Tokyo, and the Unstable Geography of Race in Post-World War II Los Angeles .pdf'"

• Four (4) primary source analysis worksheets

• Four (4) reading analysis worksheets

• One (1) sample visual response

• Sub-Topic Deep Dive Continued Reading Sheet

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The standards covered in this lesson: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1 , CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2 & CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9

Lesson plan created by Endiya Griffin in partnership with OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates

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