Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

Description:

"Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This 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. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped to shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African Americans,  City and town life,  Civilization,  History,  Internal Migration,  Popular culture,  Public spaces,  Race identity,  Race relations,  Social conditions,  Suburban life,  Suburban life in popular culture,  Whites,  Popular culture, united states,  Migration, internal,  African americans, california, los angeles,  African americans, social conditions,  Los angeles (calif.), social conditions,  United states, civilization, 20th century,  Los angeles (calif.), race relations,  White people,  Culture populaire,  Histoire,  Espaces publics,  Vie de la banlieue,  Vie de la banlieue dans la culture populaire,  Noirs américains,  Conditions sociales,  Vie urbaine,  State & Local,  General,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Sociology,  Urban,  Blancs,  Identité ethnique,  Migration intérieure,  Civilisation,  Relations raciales,  Cultuurgeschiedenis,  Identiteit,  Populaire cultuur,  Stedelijke omgeving,  Suburbanisatie,  Etnisch bewustzijn,  Kultur,  Milieu urbain,  Race

Places: California,  Los Angeles,  Los Angeles (Calif.),  Los Angeles Region

Times: 20th century