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Article: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2006
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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. By Eric Avila. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 308. $39.95.)
The author of this book 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. He presents the drama of the emergence of the rising urban phenomenon in the context of the dynamics of the interaction between the surging new migrants and the receding values of established traditions, not only in Los Angeles, but also in other cities in southern ...