ISBN:
0520939719
,
159734821X
,
9780520939714
,
9781597348218
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 308 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
American crossroads 13
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Avila, Eric, 1968- Popular culture in the age of white flight
DDC:
979.4/94
Keywords:
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Public spaces History 20th century
;
Whites Race identity
;
Suburban life History 20th century
;
Suburban life in popular culture History 20th century
;
Migration, Internal History 20th century
;
African Americans Social conditions 20th century
;
City and town life History 20th century
;
HISTORY ; State & Local ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; Urban
;
Suburban life in popular culture
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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
;
Los Angeles (Calif.) Race relations
;
Los Angeles (Calif.) Social conditions 20th century
;
Los Angeles (Calif.) Civilization 20th century
;
California ; Los Angeles
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California ; Los Angeles Region
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Electronic book
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index
