{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fecfa74f1-a38e-4be0-8666-eb46714c404d","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Ep. 23: Who are the Forgotten Founders of LA? Feat. Dr. Jessica Kim and Esperanza Sanchez","description":"On this Episode, MHD and co-host, Chavonne Taylor, speak with historians Dr. Jessica Kim and Esperanza Sanchez about the little-known African Ancestry of Los Pobladores, the founders of Los Angeles.\nJessica Kim, PhD, is an associate professor of history at California State University, Northridge.\u00a0 She specializes in the history of the American West, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, urban history, and public and digital history.\u00a0\u00a0Her book,\u00a0Imperial\u00a0Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American\u00a0Empire, 1865-1941, was published by the University of North\u00a0Carolina Press in 2019. The book explores the rise of Los Angeles and investment in Mexico.\nEsperanza Sanchez is the Associate Curator at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. She holds a Master of Arts in History with a focus on public history and a Bachelor of Arts in History with an emphasis on US, Europe, and Latin America foreign relations, and a minor in sociology, both from California State University, Northridge. She previously held archival, curatorial, and educational positions at the Autry Museum of the American West, the Museum of Latin American Art, and California State University, Northridge.\nIn 2016, as part of the CSUN Public History Program, Professor Kim along with her students, including Esperanza at the time, collaborated with El Pueblo de Los Angeles, the USC-Huntington Institute on California and the West, as well as the National Parks Conservation Association on an exhibit that emphasized the role of individuals of African descent in the founding of Los Angeles. The exhibition, titled Forgotten Founders: The Hidden African Ancestry of Los Angeles, highlighted the unique, diverse, and often overlooked LA history.\nResources:\nwww.csun.edu/calendar/events/forgotten-founders-hidden-african-ancestry-la\nwww.jessicamichellekim.com\nLA Plaza de Cultura y Artes exhibitions:\u00a0\nLA Starts Here! (lapca.org/exhibition/la-starts-here/)\nafroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city (lapca.org/exhibition/afrolatinidad-mi-casa-my-city/)\n\n\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/67bba374-50b6-4378-9b5f-aa0fb3b4cf86/16413700-1628618685791-c9ff34ad5d7f9.jpg"}