Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
- ISBN-10
- 0520241215
- ISBN-13
- 9780520241213
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-08-23
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Eric Avila
Description
"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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