RURAL land use, GEOGRAPHY, LAND use, GOVERNMENT policy, SUBURBS, VILLAGES
Abstract
This article examines how the local production of Westerns shaped the postwar racial geography of Los Angeles's suburban San Fernando Valley. White suburban activists drew upon the ideologies about rural land that Westerns promoted and forged political coalitions with the mythmakers who crafted them to secure privileged land-use policies, resist residential integration, and justify white flight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]