Popular culture in the age of white flight
Subtitle: fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles
By: Eric Avila.
Series: American crossroads -- 13
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: 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.) -- Civilization -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations
Other titles: Fear and fantasy in suburban Los Angeles
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chocolate cities and vanilla suburbs: race, space, and the new "new mass culture" of postwar America; title: The nation's "white spot": racializing postwar Los Angeles; title: The spectacle of urban blight: Hollywood's rendition of a black Los Angeles; title: "A rage for order": Disneyland and the suburban ideal; title: Suburbanizing the city center: the Dodgers move West; title: The sutured city: tales of progress and disaster in the freeway metropolis; title: The 1960s and beyond.