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

Berkeley : University of California Press [©2004], 2004

1 Online-Ressource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index

Erscheint auch als: Avila, Eric, 1968- : Popular culture in the age of white flight. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-520-93971-9 (electronic bk.); 1-59734-821-X (electronic bk.); 978-0-520-93971-4 (electronic bk.); 978-1-59734-821-8 (electronic bk.)

1-4175-4496-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4175-4496-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-24811-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24811-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 9786612358470 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 6612358475 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24121-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-24121-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24121-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

LB 48610  | LB 72610  | MS 1870      Ähnliche Literatur

F869.L85

979.4/94

Basisklassifikation: 71.14

bisacsh: HIS 036010 ; bisacsh: SOC026030

SSG-Nummer(n): 8

LOC-SH: Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century ; Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century ; Whites -- 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.) -- Race relations ; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century ; Electronic book

California ; Los Angeles ; California ; Los Angeles Region ; 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 ; Whites ; Race identity ; History

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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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