My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965

by Becky M. Nicolaides

Book Overview

In the 1920s, thousands of white migrants settled in the Los Angeles suburb of South Gate. Six miles from downtown and adjacent to Watts, South Gate and its neighboring communities served as L.A.'s Detroit, an industrial belt for mass production of cars, tires, steel, and other durable goods. Blue-collar workers built the suburb literally from the ground up, using sweat equity rather than cash to construct their own homes.

As Becky M. Nicolaides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226583007
• ISBN13: 9780226583006
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"