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The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

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Description for The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City paperback. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 248 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD; AMX; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.


When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, commemoration, and preservation staged on behalf of the mostly minority urban neighborhoods that lacked the political and economic power to resist the onslaught of highway construction.

Within the context of the larger historical forces of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative ... Read more

Bringing such efforts to the fore in the story of the freeway revolt, The Folklore of the Freeway moves beyond a simplistic narrative of victimization. Losers, perhaps, in their fight against the freeway, the diverse communities at the center of the book nonetheless generate powerful cultural forces that shape our understanding of the urban landscape and influence the shifting priorities of contemporary urban policy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Quadrant Book
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816680733
SKU
V9780816680733
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About Eric Avila
Eric Avila is associate professor of history, Chicano studies, and urban planning at UCLA. He is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.

Reviews for The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
 "Eric Avila's in-depth research and his sheer passionate commitment to the subject should make this one of the rare books that succeeds in replacing a widely-accepted narrative." —Robert Fishman, University of Michigan "A must-read cultural history of the 'invisible freeway revolts' through which city people of color have demanded social justice in the midst of aggressive urban reforms. Avila ... Read more

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