Dreaming Suburbia

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,