Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.
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.
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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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Popular culture in the age of white flight.
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African Americans-- California-- Los Angeles-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
City and town life-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Migration, Internal-- California-- Los Angeles Region-- History-- 20th century.
Popular culture-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Public spaces-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Suburban life-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Suburban life in popular culture-- California-- Los Angeles-- History-- 20th century.
Whites-- Race identity-- California-- Los Angeles.
African Americans-- Social conditions.
City and town life.
Civilization.
HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.
Migration, Internal.
Popular culture.
Public spaces.
Race relations.
Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Urban.
Suburban life in popular culture
Suburban life.
Whites-- Race identity.
Los Angeles (Calif.), Civilization, 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.), Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.), Social conditions, 20th century.