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Traci Park (born 1976) is an American attorney and politician, who is the Los Angeles City Councilmember for the 11th district since 2022. [1] Having entered the race to challenge incumbent Mike Bonin, [2] Park became a frontrunner for the open seat upon Bonin's announcement of retirement, and defeated civil rights attorney Erin Darling in the general election.
The 11th District is bounded by Mulholland Drive on the north, the Pacific Ocean on the west, Imperial Highway on the south and roughly the 405 freeway on the east. The district covers all or a portion of the following: Brentwood, Del Rey, Mar Vista, Marina del Rey, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Sawtelle, Venice, West Los Angeles, Westchester and the Los Angeles ...
There is also a large Asian population in Monterey Park, South San Gabriel, and Montebello. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the population of Asian American residents in the city grew by 8.2%. [6] There are around 930,000 Asian Americans and 7,700 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander immigrants living in Los Angeles County. [7]
There are around 50,000 Roma living in the Los Angeles area, making it one of the cities with the highest Roma concentration in the U.S. [26] More than 1.2 million Los Angeles residents are of Mexican ancestry. Mexican influences can be seen in the city’s culture. [27] Mexican Americans are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles.
Areas such as Monterey Park, Koreatown, Long Beach, Torrance and Cerritos each became home to between 10,000 and 18,000 Asians in the 1980s. ... Some of Los Angeles’ earliest ethnic enclaves ...
Cambodian and Southeast Asian-dominant street gangs such as the Asian Boyz, which is an off-shoot of the African American and Los Angeles based Crips gang, formed in Los Angeles County the late 1970s to the 1980s during the Cambodian refuge migration to the US, especially in Long Beach, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland, St. Paul, Minnesota, and ...
In Los Angeles County the largest Asian ethnic groups were the Chinese and the Filipinos. In the period 2000-2010 the percentage of Bangladeshi Americans increased by 122%. Indian Americans, Pakistani Americans, Sri Lankan Americans, and other South Asian ethnic groups had, according to the report and as paraphrased by Elson Trinidad of KCET ...
The city of San Gabriel boasts a mixture of Asian, European, and North American cultures. [36] Second- and third-generation Chinese Americans patronize its diverse array of stores and eateries. [37] There is the 12-acre (49,000 m 2) "San Gabriel Square" mall that has been mentioned in the Los Angeles Times as "the great mall of China."