{"product_id":"the-new-suburbia-how-diversity-remade-suburban-life-in-los-angeles-after-1945-hardcover","title":"The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBecky M. Nicolaides\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerica's suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation--rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. Stories of everyday suburban life, in the process, have taken on new inflections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNowhere are these changes more vivid than in Los Angeles. In this suburban metropolis and global powerhouse, lily white suburbs have virtually disappeared, and over two-thirds of the County's suburbs have become majority minority. Examining this vanguard of change from the postwar to the present, \u003cem\u003eThe New Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e follows the Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Latinos who moved into white neighborhoods that once barred them. They bought homes, enrolled their children in schools, and began navigating suburban life. They faced a choice: would they remake the suburbs, or would the suburbs remake them? In places like Pasadena, San Marino, South Gate, and Lakewood, suburbanites faced the challenges of living together in difference. Historian Becky Nicolaides explores a range of community experiences, from internal resegregation to suburban poverty, an embrace of law-and-order culture to police brutality, friendly neighbors to social withdrawal. In some communities, diverse residents continued longstanding habits of exclusion and perpetuated metropolitan inequality. In others, they embraced more inclusive, multicultural suburban ideals. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained--low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and families seeking the good life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn authoritative work based on a half-century of quantitative data and unpublished oral histories and interviews, \u003cem\u003eThe New Suburbia \u003c\/em\u003eexplores vital landscapes where the American dream has endured, even as the dreamers have changed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBecky M. Nicolaides\u003c\/strong\u003e is a research affiliate at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eMy Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965\u003c\/em\u003e and the co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Suburb Reader\u003c\/em\u003e. She has served on the LA Mayor's Office Civic Memory Working Group and is a lifelong Angeleno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.5 x 8.8 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978523345197,"sku":"9780197578308","price":54.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Vz0sEDU7Po9780197578308.webp?v=1775805623","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-new-suburbia-how-diversity-remade-suburban-life-in-los-angeles-after-1945-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}