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Hometown Memories

What it was like to be a crossover kid.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Jul 13, 2022
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Since I’ve written up some of my experiences in Crenshaw and elsewhere with Asian kids, mostly Japanese (Nisei), I’m in something of a nostalgic mood. It turns out that I made a video in 2017 that had a lot of flavorful details about me and 70s street culture in Los Angeles. I’m going to put that one here, because of course I didn’t just hang with black…

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