Background
Nicolaides, Becky Marianna was born on September 16, 1961 in Portland. Daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Nicolaides.
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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 shows in My Blue Heaven, this ethic of self-reliance and homeownership formed the core of South Gate's identity. With post-World War II economic prosperity, the community's emphasis shifted from building homes to protecting them as residents tried to maintain their standard of living against outside threats—including the growing civil rights movement—through grassroots conservative politics based on an ideal of white homeowner rights. As the citizens of South Gate struggled to defend their segregated American Dream of suburban community, they fanned the flames of racial inequality that erupted in the 1965 Watts riots.
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Nicolaides, Becky Marianna was born on September 16, 1961 in Portland. Daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth Nicolaides.
Bachelor, University Southern California, 1984. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1993.
Events editor, writer Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1984-1985. Researcher ABC News, New York City, 1986-1987, Encyclopedia New York City, 1988-1991. Lecturer California State University, Long Beach, 1990-1991.
Research associate Southwest Regional Laboratory, Los Alamitos, California, 1991-1994. Assistant professor Arizona State University, Phoenix, 1994-1997, University California, San Diego, 1997—2001, associate professor, since 2001. Consultant in field.
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Member American Association of University Professors, American History Association, Organization American Historians, Los Angeles History Research Group.
Married David Marc Weisenberg, October 17, 1997.