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Author Avila, Eric, 1968-

Title Popular culture in the age of white flight : fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles / Eric Avila
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations
Series American crossroads ; 13
American crossroads ; 13
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
Summary 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 Southern California's booming urban region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Suburban life in popular culture
African Americans -- Social conditions
City and town life
Civilization
Migration, Internal
Popular culture
Public spaces
Race relations
Social conditions
Suburban life
White people -- Race identity
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
Subject California -- Los Angeles
California -- Los Angeles Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520939714
0520939719
159734821X
9781597348218
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9781417544967
9780520248113
0520248112
9786612358470
6612358475