Eric Avila Books
Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles
By Eric Avila
"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 c...
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By Eric Avila
The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate...
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