Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, 13 - (American Crossroads) by Eric Avila (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with provocative 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 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. <br /><br />Avila examines disparate manifestations of popular culture in architecture, art, music, and more to illustrate the unfolding urban dynamics of postwar Los Angeles. He also synthesizes important currents of new research in urban history, cultural studies, and critical race theory, weaving a textured narrative about the interplay of space, cultural representation, and identity amid the westward shift of capital and culture in postwar America.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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 <i>The Possessive Investment in Whiteness</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"'Ambitious and engaging . . . constitutes a valuable contribution to ongoing debates within cultural history, urban history, and the history of "race" in the United States. Historians of the twentieth-century West should find this book enjoyable, insightful, and provocative."-- "Western Historical Quarterly"<br><br>"A masterful history of the white racial logical that informed the mid-twentieth-century development of southern California's major popular-cultural institutions on the one hand, an processes of postwar urbanization on the other."-- "Southern California Quarterly"<br><br>"Entertaining and informative, striking a nice balance between telling a story about Los Angeles and one about the United States more generally." -- "Environment & Planning A: Economy and Space"<br><br>"Highly reccomended"-- "CHOICE"<br><br>"Its analysis of postwar culture and redevelopment . . . help[s] to render the structures of power in Los Angeles more comprehensible without erasing complexity."-- "California History"<br><br>"Skillfully weaves together a number of literary strands that give a candid and vivid portrait of the economic, cultural, and social development of the city of Los Angeles from 1940 to 1970."-- "The Historian"<br><br>"The idea that postwar popular culture reified the patriarchal and racial orders of a 'traditional' America is by now a familiar one, but the author breathes life into this truism through his insistence on situating postwar cultural institutions on a spatial landscape. Recognizing that institutions of popular culture had physical dimensions that both reflected and reshaped political culture, this book does much to root traditionally detached discussions of popular culture in the quite literally contested terrain of postwar metropolitan America."-- "American Historical Review"<br><br>"This linking of southern California political culture with changes in urban identities and experiences associated with the re-configuration of social space and race relations makes Avila's book a thoroughly original contribution."-- "Journal of American History"<br><br>"This remarkable book combines an analysis of how denizens of Los Angeles's sprawling suburbs came to associate their whiteness with the spatial reorganization of the city. Disneyland, the relocation of the Dodgers, film noir, government housing programs, and the freeway system proved most central to this process. Eric Avila covers the time period from 1940 to 1970 creatively and with rigorous scholarship."-- "Pacific Historical Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eric Avila</b> is Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies and History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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