The article “How My Southeast L.A. Culture Got to Japan” was written to accompany Walter Thompson-Hernández’s short film on L.A. Chicano/Chicana lowrider culture’s presence in Japan. The short film he made by Emily Rhyne, Walter Thompson-Hernández, and Alexandra Eaton for the New York Times highlighted how the lowrider community “came to represent rebellion, resilience, and youth” and how that feeling is not unique to L.A. … Continue reading Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation: Thompson-Hernández on the Lowrider Culture in Japan