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Website. Watts Neighborhood Council. Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington Park and South Gate to the east and southeast, respectively, and the unincorporated community of Willowbrook to the south.
Watts, southwestern district of Los Angeles, California, U.S. The district, originally called Mud Town, was renamed in 1900 for C.H. Watts, a Pasadena realtor who owned a ranch there. It was annexed to Los Angeles in 1926.
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Stretching only 2.1 square miles, this fertile, magical district has given birth to some of the most extraordinary people, monuments, and cultures in the world. Watts is located on Rancho La Tajauta, a 3,560-acre Mexican land grant given to Anastasio Avila, by Governor Manuel Micheltorena, in 1843.
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Jun 7, 2011 · Watts, one of the most famous neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, is located approximately seven miles southeast of downtown. Originally part of the Rancho La Tajauta Mexican land grant, Watts was incorporated in 1903 and began to grow as a community in 1907, when the Watts Station was built and transportation within Watts became easier.
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- Emergence of The Carceral State
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Among several generations of journalists and historians, the very naming of the urban popular uprisings of the 1960s has been hotly contested. As scholar Heather Thompson has shown, the choice to use the term “riot” as opposed to “rebellion” reflected conflicting assumptions about the meaning not only of the popular street protests, but the larger ...
As a new generation of historians explores the emergence of mass incarceration and the modern carceral state, the Watts rebellion is a pivotal moment. Scholars have chosen the term “carceral”—“of or belonging to prison”—to invoke a wide range of punitive state action. It includes aggressive policing; border patrol, military, and immigrant detention...
The bleakness of racial retrenchment should not overshadow the meaning of Watts to the participants themselves, the powerful cultural and political movements nurtured in its wake, and the larger African American community. For teaching, perhaps the single most compelling primary source for the response of local residents to the Watts rebellion is t...
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Sep 28, 2017 · The Watts Rebellion, also known as the Watts Riots, was a large series of riots that broke out August 11, 1965, in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles.
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The area now known as Watts began its modern history after the arrival of Spanish-Mexican settlers, as part of the Rancho La Tajuata, which received its land grant in 1820. As on all ranchos, the principle vocation was livestock grazing and beef production.
