The new suburbia : how diversity remade suburban life in Los Angeles after 1945 /
"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 cr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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. The New Suburbia focuses on Los Angeles, at the vanguard of this trend. It tells stories of the Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Latinos who moved into white suburbs that once barred them. They bought homes, enrolled their children in schools, and began navigating suburban life. Internal divisions surfaced in some communities—between homeowners and renters, citizens and noncitizens, long-term residents and the newly arrived. In some cases, diverse suburbanites continued long-lived habits of resisting the poor, the unhoused, renters, even ethnic landscapes, and that resistance became multiracial. The end result was persistent inequality across the metropolis even as the suburbs became much more diverse. At the same time, the new suburbia witnessed the arrival of more inclusive values, pointing the way toward an emerging multicultural suburban ideal"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 556 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197578339 0197578330 9780197578322 0197578322 9780197578315 0197578314 |