The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945
- ISBN-10
- 0197578306
- ISBN-13
- 9780197578308
- Category
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Pages
- 577
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2024-01-05
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Becky M. Nicolaides
Description
"The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transitioned from bastions of segregation into spaces of multiracial living. They are the second generation of suburbs after 1945, moving from starkly segregated whiteness into a more varied, uneven social landscape. The suburbs came to hold a broad cross-section of people - rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new suburbia, white advantage persisted, but it existed alongside rising inequality, ethnic and racial diversity, and new family configurations. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained - low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and yards and families seeking the good life. On this familiar landscape, the American dream endured even as the dreamers changed"--
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