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Los Angeles in the beginning of World War II, the ethnic enclave had moved from being the heart of the “Japanese problem” to being the “Negro problem”. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed in May 1944, that both commercial and residential structures in former times resided by Japanese Americans were “now overflowing with thousands of Negro families from Deep South” In the early 1930s, Japanese immigrant activists had proven especially vulnerable repression. As relations between the USA and Japan grew increasingly belligerent, the state cast an eye of suspicion over the second-generation Nisei, as well. Mass Japanese American protest against racism yielded to a traumatic search for an identity to fit the increasingly narrowed parameters of Americanism. Seemingly deprived of collective models of resistance, Japanese Americans came to view the US nation-state as a repressive body that one must either submit to or renounce. While African Americans activism during the Depression failed to stem the tide of segregation or close the economic inequality gap with whites. It laid the bases for unity across class and ideological lines. Moreover, as New Deal created a dawning sense of hope in the power of remedial state action, the Black community developed a new relationship to the governing Democrats. As the war created a pressing need for national unity and defense production, African Americans would call on these politicians to deploy state power in the name of civil rights. Responding to pressure by black activists, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Committee on Fair Employment Practice. (FEPC)

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The FEPC’s oversight of the defense industries promised to expand economic opportunities for all people of color, yet Japanese Americans were slated for mass internment by the time its impact was left in Los Angeles. The dominant racial ideology during World War II would debilitate Japanese American agency while creating openings for African Americans to assert greater claims for full citizenship. In 1934, the Democrat Hawkins had defeated seven-term Republican Frederick Roberts, who was at the time the only African American in Los Angeles holding elected office. In 1938, Black workers in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) represented double their share of the population at-large. In Los Angeles, the WPA routinely assigned all African Americans to manual labor jobs, and the National Youth Administration acceded to the requests of employers who refused to hire Blacks. The intersecting histories of Japanese American and Black public movements in Los Angeles are able to educate us much about how social figures determined their place in a multiracial order and assist us to decompose the methods by which they tried to alter that order. “We need to acknowledge that the efforts of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and their allies to establish a presence, build homes, and raise families changed the course of Los Angeles history by generating a new sense of identity for individuals, racial ethnic groups, and the city as a whole” The Pre-World II drive for self development and racial advance yield to the quest for integration, described by social democracy for some and by assimilation for others. Japanese Americans in period of World War II were considered by a lot of Blacks and Whites as a foreign people on causing problems on account of the fact that it was out of place in the USA.
The thought of a multicultural order characterized by a of accumulation ethnicities will provide way to a realization that we reside a polycultural society in which all peculiarities are created at the crossing of various cultures. The form of this polytechnic world is still in creation; however we might be sure that the main components of its origin system have already formed in Los Angeles.