Becky M Nicolaides
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Becky M Nicolaides |
| GIVEN NAMES | Becky M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicolaides |
| SIGNATURE | NICOLAIDES B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-7216-5895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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 cross-section of people—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new subur…
Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian Americans, Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley since 1970
Ethnic suburban settlement has shaped suburban landscapes in contrasting ways. On one end are ethnoburbs, where ethnic groups used spatial politics to assert their rights of ethnic expression in the landscape. On the other—less noticed—end are places where ethnic settlers arrived en masse, and their presence was scarcely visible. This article focuses on the latter, towns where ethnic suburbanites consented to existing design mores—what we term de…
Introduction: Asian American Suburban History
FROM THE SUBURBAN SAHIBS OF Middlesex County, New Jersey, to the Taiwanese of L.A.’s “626,” stories of immigrant suburbia are finally moving from the peculiar to the everyday. It is no longer so unusual when we find suburbs populated by diverse types of people and families—African Americans, gays, newly arrived immigrants, single-parent households, the elderly. Yet even as this trend becomes more widespread, there lingers a kind of deeply reflexi…
The Suburb Reader
Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 p…
The Neighborhood Politics of Class in a Working-Class Suburb of Los Angeles, 1920-1940
In interwar Los Angeles, the politics of the neighborhood took on immense importance in the lives of white, working-class families. A close study of South Gate, a blue-collar suburb in southern Los Angeles, reveals that home ownership became central to the political identity of local residents. In these years, the peculiar nature of working-class suburbia lent a highly class-sensitive spin to that identity; working-class homeowners were fiercely …
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
How to Read a Suburb
Whenever I teach classes on the history of cities or suburbs, I always try to get my students out of the classroom and into the kinds of places they are learning about. To step into the city or suburbs—to feel the rhythms, see the buildings, watch the people, and sense the aura of these places—goes a long way toward teaching students what these places mean. The built environment can become a sort of primary source, easily available and accessible…
Professional Sports and Sunbelt Cities
Economists use many indicators to judge the size and importance of a city and its surrounding suburbs, but one of the easiest and most fun to work with is the presence or absence of big league sports teams. Until the end of World War II, American League (AL) and National League (NL) baseball, the National Football League (NFL), and the National Basketball Association (NBA) were all confined to the Northeast and Midwest, roughly the area bounded b…
Suburbia and the Sunbelt
In my mind, the concepts “Sunbelt city” and “suburb” are nearly synonymous. This idea became real to me several years ago when I was teaching at Arizona State University West, located in the northwest reaches of Phoenix. Driving down those boulevards, where the asphalt seemed to melt beneath my tires on hot days, I passed mile after mile after mile of tract housing, mini-malls, dividing walls, broken up only by the occasional big box store or fre…
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
Journal Article My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965 Get access My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. By Nicolaides Becky M.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $65.00, £41.00, cloth; $24.00, £15.50, paper.) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Georgetown University Search for othe…
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
Journal Article William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles Get access William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. By Mulholland Catherine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxi + 411 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35; £22.) Becky M. Nicolaides Becky M. Nicolaides University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…
Where the Working Man Is Welcomed: Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940
Research Article| November 01 1999 "Where the Working Man Is Welcomed": Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940 Becky M. Nicolaides Becky M. Nicolaides Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (4): 517–559. https://doi.org/10.2307/4492370 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
The Resort City Gets Real
Radio electioneering in the American presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936
(1988). Radio electioneering in the American presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 115-138
Where the Working Man Is Welcomed: Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940
Research Article| November 01 1999 "Where the Working Man Is Welcomed": Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940 Becky M. Nicolaides Becky M. Nicolaides Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (4): 517–559. https://doi.org/10.2307/4492370 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian Americans, Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley since 1970
Ethnic suburban settlement has shaped suburban landscapes in contrasting ways. On one end are ethnoburbs, where ethnic groups used spatial politics to assert their rights of ethnic expression in the landscape. On the other—less noticed—end are places where ethnic settlers arrived en masse, and their presence was scarcely visible. This article focuses on the latter, towns where ethnic suburbanites consented to existing design mores—what we term de…
Introduction: Asian American Suburban History
FROM THE SUBURBAN SAHIBS OF Middlesex County, New Jersey, to the Taiwanese of L.A.’s “626,” stories of immigrant suburbia are finally moving from the peculiar to the everyday. It is no longer so unusual when we find suburbs populated by diverse types of people and families—African Americans, gays, newly arrived immigrants, single-parent households, the elderly. Yet even as this trend becomes more widespread, there lingers a kind of deeply reflexi…
Radio electioneering in the American presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936
(1988). Radio electioneering in the American presidential campaigns of 1932 and 1936. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 115-138
The Resort City Gets Real
Where the Working Man Is Welcomed: Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940
Research Article| November 01 1999 "Where the Working Man Is Welcomed": Working-Class Suburbs in Los Angeles, 1900-1940 Becky M. Nicolaides Becky M. Nicolaides Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (4): 517–559. https://doi.org/10.2307/4492370 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
Journal Article William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles Get access William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. By Mulholland Catherine. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxi + 411 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35; £22.) Becky M. Nicolaides Becky M. Nicolaides University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
How to Read a Suburb
Whenever I teach classes on the history of cities or suburbs, I always try to get my students out of the classroom and into the kinds of places they are learning about. To step into the city or suburbs—to feel the rhythms, see the buildings, watch the people, and sense the aura of these places—goes a long way toward teaching students what these places mean. The built environment can become a sort of primary source, easily available and accessible…
Professional Sports and Sunbelt Cities
Economists use many indicators to judge the size and importance of a city and its surrounding suburbs, but one of the easiest and most fun to work with is the presence or absence of big league sports teams. Until the end of World War II, American League (AL) and National League (NL) baseball, the National Football League (NFL), and the National Basketball Association (NBA) were all confined to the Northeast and Midwest, roughly the area bounded b…
Suburbia and the Sunbelt
In my mind, the concepts “Sunbelt city” and “suburb” are nearly synonymous. This idea became real to me several years ago when I was teaching at Arizona State University West, located in the northwest reaches of Phoenix. Driving down those boulevards, where the asphalt seemed to melt beneath my tires on hot days, I passed mile after mile after mile of tract housing, mini-malls, dividing walls, broken up only by the occasional big box store or fre…
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
Journal Article My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965 Get access My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920–1965. By Nicolaides Becky M.. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xviii + 412 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. $65.00, £41.00, cloth; $24.00, £15.50, paper.) Joseph A. McCartin Joseph A. McCartin Georgetown University Search for othe…
The Neighborhood Politics of Class in a Working-Class Suburb of Los Angeles, 1920-1940
In interwar Los Angeles, the politics of the neighborhood took on immense importance in the lives of white, working-class families. A close study of South Gate, a blue-collar suburb in southern Los Angeles, reveals that home ownership became central to the political identity of local residents. In these years, the peculiar nature of working-class suburbia lent a highly class-sensitive spin to that identity; working-class homeowners were fiercely …
The Suburb Reader
Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 p…
Introduction: Asian American Suburban History
FROM THE SUBURBAN SAHIBS OF Middlesex County, New Jersey, to the Taiwanese of L.A.’s “626,” stories of immigrant suburbia are finally moving from the peculiar to the everyday. It is no longer so unusual when we find suburbs populated by diverse types of people and families—African Americans, gays, newly arrived immigrants, single-parent households, the elderly. Yet even as this trend becomes more widespread, there lingers a kind of deeply reflexi…
Design Assimilation in Suburbia: Asian Americans, Built Landscapes, and Suburban Advantage in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley since 1970
Ethnic suburban settlement has shaped suburban landscapes in contrasting ways. On one end are ethnoburbs, where ethnic groups used spatial politics to assert their rights of ethnic expression in the landscape. On the other—less noticed—end are places where ethnic settlers arrived en masse, and their presence was scarcely visible. This article focuses on the latter, towns where ethnic suburbanites consented to existing design mores—what we term de…
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 cross-section of people—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new subur…
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