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Dreaming suburbia : Detroit and the production of postwar space and culture

Kenyon, Amy Maria

2004

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A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom. Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored through novels, film, television and social criticism where suburbia features as a central theme. Although suburbanization had important implications for cities and for the geo-politics of race, critical considerations of race and urban culture often receive insufficient attention in cultural studies of suburbia. This book puts these questions back in the frame by focusing on Detroit, Dearborn and Ford history, and the local suburbs of Inkster and Garden City. Covering such topics as the political and cultural economy of suburban sprawl, the interdependence of city and suburb, and local acts of violence and crises during the 1967 riots, the text examines the making of a physical place, its cultural effects and social exclusions. The perspectives of cultural history, American studies, social science, and urban studies give Dreaming Suburbia an interdisciplinary appeal.

• الناشر: Wayne State University Press
• موضوع: 1945 / 20th century / City and town life / City and town life -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Culture / Detroit / Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) / Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) -- Race relations / Detroit Metropolitan Area (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century / History / Michigan / Race relations / Riots / Riots -- Michigan -- Detroit / Social conditions / Space / Suburban areas / Suburban life / Suburban life -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Suburban life in literature / Suburban life in popular culture / Suburban life in popular culture -- United States / U.S.A / United States / United States -- Social conditions -- 1945 / Urban life
• ISBN: 0814332285, 9780814332283, 0814339131, 9780814339138