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

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 308 pages) : illustrations.
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Physical Medium	polychrome
Series	American crossroads ; 13
	American crossroads ; 13.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century.
	Popular culture -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular culture.
	California -- Los Angeles.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Public spaces -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
	Public spaces.
	Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations.
	White people -- Race identity -- California -- Los Angeles.
	White people -- Race identity.
	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.
	Suburban life.
	California -- Los Angeles Region.
	African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Suburban life in popular culture.
	Migration, Internal.
	City and town life -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans.
	Social conditions.
	HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
	City and town life.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
	Civilization.
	Race relations.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Avila, Eric, 1968- Popular culture in the age of white flight. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520241215 (DLC) 2003019072 (OCoLC)52979082
ISBN	9780520939714 (electronic book)
	0520939719 (electronic book)
	159734821X (electronic book)
	9781597348218 (electronic book)
	1417544961
	9781417544967
	9780520248113
	0520248112
	9786612358470
	6612358475
	0520241215
	9780520241213

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

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