3. The Spectacle of Urban Blight: Hollywood’s Rendition of a Black Los Angeles

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. 1. Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs: Race, Space, and the New “New Mass Culture” of Postwar America 1
7. 2. The Nation’s “White Spot”: Racializing Postwar Los Angeles 20
8. 3. The Spectacle of Urban Blight: Hollywood’s Rendition of a Black Los Angeles 65
9. 4. “A Rage for Order”: Disneyland and the Suburban Ideal 106
10. 5. Suburbanizing the City Center: The Dodgers Move West 145
11. 6. The Sutured City: Tales of Progress and Disaster in the Freeway Metropolis 185
12. Epilogue. The 1960s and Beyond 224
13. Notes 243
14. Selected Bibliography 281
15. Index 299