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

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 Souther...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Avila, Eric, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004.
Colección:American crossroads ; 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.