Taking as its axis the violent unrest following the Rodney King verdict in 1992 and reaching back to the Watts rebellion of 1965 and forward to the present, this powerful study tracks the forces of race, class, culture and citizenship as they have shaped relations among Koreans, Blacks and Latinos in South Los Angeles over the last four decades of increasing US income inequality. During the charged and economically devastated post-King moment and the following period of community mobilization, Kyeyoung Park and her multi-ethnic team of researchers documented the uncensored voices of residents negotiating what Park calls the multipolar “racial cartography” of the inner city. Park’s neo-Marxist ethnographic analysis bravely and directly confronts both the structural causes and the intense interpersonal manifestations of racial and ethnic inequality. The resulting picture defies easy stereotyping: it will surprise you, disturb you, and above all broaden your understanding of the profound impact of racialized capitalism in America.