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American Crossroads Ser.: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles by Eric Avila (2006, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520248112
ISBN-139780520248113
eBay Product ID (ePID)50488082
Product Key Features
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePopular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
SubjectUrban & Land Use Planning, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2006
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture, Social Science, History
AuthorEric Avila
SeriesAmerican Crossroads Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-019072
Dewey Edition22
Reviews_A masterful history of the white racial logical that informed the mid-twentieth-century development of southern California_s major popular-cultural institutions on the one hand, an processes of postwar urbanization on the other._, This linking of southern California political culture with changes in urban identities and experiences associated with the re-configuration of social space and race relations makes Avila's book a thoroughly original contribution.
Series Volume Number13
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal979.4/94
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs: Race, Space, and the New "New Mass Culture" of Postwar America 2. The Nation's "White Spot": Racializing Postwar Los Angeles 3. The Spectacle of Urban Blight: Hollywood's Rendition of a Black Los Angeles 4. "A Rage for Order": Disneyland and the Suburban Ideal 5. Suburbanizing the City Center: The Dodgers Move West 6. The Sutured City: Tales of Progress and Disaster in the Freeway Metropolis 7. Epilogue. The 1960s and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisLos 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. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with provocative discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right. Avila examines disparate manifestations of popular culture in architecture, art, music, and more to illustrate the unfolding urban dynamics of postwar Los Angeles. He also synthesizes important currents of new research in urban history, cultural studies, and critical race theory, weaving a textured narrative about the interplay of space, cultural representation, and identity amid the westward shift of capital and culture in postwar America., Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight surveys the cultural history of Los Angeles in the decades between 1940 and 1970, illustrating how a regional pattern of decentralized urbanization gave shape to a new "white" suburban identity.
LC Classification Number2003019072
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