Eric Avila
Eric Avila is a professor of History, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA. He is author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004). His research and teaching interests focus upon the historical interplay of social identity, cultural expression and urban space. Professor Avila is currently working on his next book project, tentatively titled, The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Politics of Identity in the Modernist City.
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