The folklore of the freeway [electronic resource] : race and revolt in the modernist city / Eric Avila.

By:

Avila, Eric, 1968-

Contributor(s):

Project Muse

Material type: Text

TextSeries: A quadrant book | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:

9781452942896
1452942897

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

303.48/320973 23

LOC classification:

HE355.3.E94 A95 2014

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt -- 1. The Master's Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City -- 2. "Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers": Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism's Second Wave -- 3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory -- 4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway -- 5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and Improvisation -- Conclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate America -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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