Popular culture in the age of white flight : fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles / Eric Avila.

Popular culture in the age of white flight : fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles /

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Souther...

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Main Author: Avila, Eric, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Series:American crossroads ; 13.
Subjects:
Popular culture > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Public spaces > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
White people > Race identity > California > Los Angeles.
Suburban life > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Suburban life in popular culture > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > California > Los Angeles Region > History > 20th century.
African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions > 20th century.
City and town life > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Civilization > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chocolate cities and vanilla suburbs: race, space, and the new "new mass culture" of postwar America
  • The nation's "white spot": racializing postwar Los Angeles
  • The spectacle of urban blight: Hollywood's rendition of a black Los Angeles
  • "A rage for order": Disneyland and the suburban ideal
  • Suburbanizing the city center: the Dodgers move West
  • The sutured city: tales of progress and disaster in the freeway metropolis
  • The 1960s and beyond.

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