30 Years On: Pan–Asian and Black Solidarity and Conflict Since the LA Uprising

Join Occidental College’s Community Book Program for 30 Years On: Pan–Asian and Black Solidarity and Conflict Since the LA Uprising.  

Panelists include Los Angeles authors Steph Cha and Gary Philips, Cynthia Choi, the co-executive director of Chinese for Affirmative Action, Regina Freer, Occidental professor of politics and Nora Fujita-Yuhas '21, Community Youth Organizer at Center for the Pacific Asian Family. Saul Gonzalez, journalist and co-host of “The California Report” from KQED will moderate. An audience Q & A will follow.

Doors will open at 4:30 pm and the event will begin at 4:45 pm. RSVP required, seating is limited. Refreshments will be served after the event. Register at oxycbp2023.eventbrite.com. This event is open to the general public. 

This event is part of Occidental’s Community Book Program. Now in its third year, the program promotes the mission of the College by empowering our students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and other members of the broader Oxy community to experience the joy of reading and learning together. This year’s selection is Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book award, Cha’s 2019 powerful novel about racial tensions in LA follows two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime based on the actual death of Latasha Harlins. Cha weaves a compelling story about how this traumatic event affects both families involved as well as the entire Black and Asian communities in Los Angeles by depicting events in 1991 and in 2019.