My first 2024 read: Becky Nicolaides Becky Nicolaides's new book. This is an extensively researched study on the LA suburbs. It will definitely advance and contradict our outdated perception of suburbs, which are quite diverse. Plus, I'm honored to be cited in the South Gate chapter!

Today, for the first time I had the privilege of seeing Derrick and Pamela Williams in person, whose story looms large in my book, The New Suburbia. They are true ambassadors of interracial community building in Lakewood - inspirational. Oxford Academic OUP History UHA

MLK's vision of the 'beloved community' was surprisingly unfolding in the suburbs-they became an unexpected incubator, a social petri dish, for seeing how integration was playing out in America. His ideal has much to offer suburbs dealing with diversification. Oxford Academic

Lakewood, CA, the postwar mass-produced lily-white suburb, became one of LA's most stably diverse communities. I blog about it here - blog.oup.com/2024/01/living… #suburbs #losangeleshistory #socialhistory OUP History Oxford Academic UHA

Celebrating my book launch a week from today-Jan 26 @ 7pm - at Vromans Pasadena, our beloved bookstore, with Naomi Hirahara. Please join us! The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in LA After 1945. I think I'm baking for it! Oxford Academic LA History and Metro Studies Group Naomi Hirahara

I'm having two big book events this weekend: my book launch at Vroman's Bookstore Pasadena tonight at 7... and a book talk at the All Saints Church Forum in Pasadena Sunday at 9am. Hope to see you at both!! allsaints-pas.org/this-sunday-at…... vromansbookstore.com/upcoming-events

Had my dream book launch for The New Suburbia last night at Vromans, in convo with Naomi Hirahara. Great engaged SRO audience, books sold out! Thanks to all who came, thanks for posting Jorge! Oxford Academic OUP History UHA LA History and Metro Studies Group #TheNewSuburbia

Huge thanks to the Skyscraper Museum, Carol Willis and Owen Gutfreund for hosting my virtual talk on The New Suburbia.. all happened last night. You can watch it here - youtube.com/watch?v=bJi8tz… Oxford Academic OUP History UHA LA History and Metro Studies Group

One of coolest offshoots of my book The New Suburbia is this storymap I did with Jakub Žejdlík, Palacký U, Czechia. It tells story of suburban diversification, in eye popping detail. The New Suburbia expands this story a lot! UHA Oxford Academic storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2b096b…

Very excited that a long-running project w/ @lilygeismer is officially in production UChicagoPress. Look for this in early 2025 - lots more to talk about and many, many thanks to come. But for now, I'll just say how lucky we were to work with so many wonderful scholars:

So happy to see the release of Neil Young's new book, Coming Out Republican.

For years, South Gate has been a special focus of my research on suburban life, I've learned so much from this place. I'm giving a talk at SG Library on Sat Mar 30 2-3pm, to share this work from The New Suburbia. I'm looking forward to this one! visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/10289258

My FortLA trail on "Mail Order Homes" went live today! If you want a cool roadmap to some great examples of these homes in LA, check out the tour. They're mentioned in The New Suburbia, of course. UHA OUP History Oxford Academic fortla.org/trails-films-r…

Hope to see you at LATimes Festival of Books! My panel is Sat 4/20, 4:30-5:30 "American Dreams and Nightmares: The Life of the American Suburb." I'll be talking to John Rabe at LAist tent beforehand. It's going to be lit, bad pun intended! LA Times Festival of Books Oxford Academic Oxford Academic

My interview "Episode 52: Goodbye, Beaver Cleaver" on Claire Potter's Political Junkie podcast goes live today. We discuss the history and importance of our suburbs in Am life, and The New Suburbia Oxford Academic OUP History UHA clairepotter.substack.com/p/episode-52-g…

Posing with 🍋 in the background with Citlali Sosa-Riddell, Ph.D. and brilliant OUP History editor Susan Ferber's latest releases: SAND RUSH and Becky Nicolaides 's THE NEW SUBURBIA. Did you know Becky's on her book cover with her childhood friends??

I'm giving a virtual book talk about The New Suburbia tomorrow (6/4), 6:00pmPST, for the Historical Society of Southern California. Join us, it's free! Sign up at thehssc.org/events/upcomin… (scroll down). Oxford Academic L.A. Weekly (photo of my book's baptism at Palacky U Czechia)

Given that suburbanites make up 54% of Americans, how do we possibly make sense of the "suburban vote" these days? I dig into this question for Time Magazine... based on research from my book The New Suburbia. Oxford Academic ICW: California & The West Amanda Kolson Hurley time.com/7001654/americ…

Thrilled to share the line-up for LA History & Metro Studies Group - first up, a discussion w/ filmmakers of documentary on Rev James Lawson, on 9/20. Check out the whole program at dornsife.usc.edu/icw/la-history… Hope to see you there! LAhistory LA History and Metro Studies Group ICW: California & The West

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