"To support this thesis, the film traces the evolution of gangs from all-black 'social clubs' based in public parks in the '60s, through the empowering effect of the Watts riots in 1965, charting the rise of the civil rights movement through the death and imprisonment of its most able leaders. Los Angeles' grid of freeways is also shown as promoting segregation and institutional racism by creating psychological barriers between blacks and whites (with borders that were for many years physically enforced by police).
"Add to that South Los Angeles' chronic joblessness, hopelessness and crack epidemic and, the film argues, the stage is set for young blacks to turn against one another rather than rage, together, against the proverbial machine."
In the Los Angeles Times, Chris Lee interviews Stacey Peralta about the filmmaker's new documentary, Made in America.
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