Two popular places illustrate the astute relationship between the performance of identity, relations of spatiality and forces of global capitalism: Kazimierz, a district known as the former Jewish Ghetto of Krakow, exemplifies how history, commerce and everyday life compete relentlessly over space; South Central Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, exhibits the complex interaction between geographical location, lived experience and high-rating mythological currency.
J.W.A.
"STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON"
“Jewz With Attitude”
b-schWARtz ghetto-roots: (blog-author circa: 1960)
Compton Jewish Community Center-Synagogue:
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Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1888. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 93,493.[2] An inner suburb of Los Angeles, Compton has a reputation of one of the most dangerous inner city/suburban areas in the United States. In the last few years, Compton has seen an increase of middle-class residnts due to its cheap houses and a decline in crime.
In 2007, the CQ Press using data from F.B.I. "Crime in the United States 2008" rated Compton as the 17th most dangerous city in America. In 2006, the Morgan Quitno Corporation rated Compton as the most dangerous city in the United States with a population of 75,000 to 99,999, but not most dangerous overall. The city is notorious for gang violence, primarily caused by the Bloods, the Crips and numerous Mexican gangs. Compton's violent reputation was popularized in the late 1980s by the rise to prominence of local gangsta rap groups Compton's Most Wanted and especially N.W.A. and Eazy-E, who released the famous albums Straight Outta Compton and Eazy-Duz-It in 1988. Since then, "Compton" has been synonymous with anything ghetto or gang-related.
On March 26 every year "Eazy-E Day" is held to give remembrance of the notorious gangster rapper Eric "Eazy-E" Wright who died on that day in 1995. He was also a member of rap group N.W.A. Compton has been referenced on numerous occasions in gangsta rap and g-funk songs, especially in the early 1990s, and so has attained an association not only with gang violence and crime, but with rap music as well. The city is known as the home of many famous rappers, such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and The Game.
In 2007, the CQ Press using data from F.B.I. "Crime in the United States 2008" rated Compton as the 17th most dangerous city in America. In 2006, the Morgan Quitno Corporation rated Compton as the most dangerous city in the United States with a population of 75,000 to 99,999, but not most dangerous overall. The city is notorious for gang violence, primarily caused by the Bloods, the Crips and numerous Mexican gangs. Compton's violent reputation was popularized in the late 1980s by the rise to prominence of local gangsta rap groups Compton's Most Wanted and especially N.W.A. and Eazy-E, who released the famous albums Straight Outta Compton and Eazy-Duz-It in 1988. Since then, "Compton" has been synonymous with anything ghetto or gang-related.
On March 26 every year "Eazy-E Day" is held to give remembrance of the notorious gangster rapper Eric "Eazy-E" Wright who died on that day in 1995. He was also a member of rap group N.W.A. Compton has been referenced on numerous occasions in gangsta rap and g-funk songs, especially in the early 1990s, and so has attained an association not only with gang violence and crime, but with rap music as well. The city is known as the home of many famous rappers, such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and The Game.
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