Oliver Wang’s book on Japanese American car culture details untold LA history

Oliver Wang’s book on Japanese American car culture details untold LA history Oliver Wang, a sociology professor and author at Cal State Long Beach, spent years griping to his friends about the lack of Asian American representation in Southern California’s car history. “I was talking to an old friend,” Wang began during a recent Zoom interview. “And he said to me, ‘Oliver, you’ve been complaining that there’s no book about Asian Americans in cars for 20 years. You ...