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[[File:Popular_Culture_in_the_Age_of_White_Flight.jpg|left|250px|thumbnail|<i>Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight</i> by Eric Avila]]
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''This article was originally published on [http://videri.org/index.php?title=Popular_Culture_in_the_Age_of_White_Flight| Videri.org] and is republished here with their permission.''
If as Lizabeth Cohen argues in ''A Consumer Republic'' that postwar government policies as represented by the G.I. Bill, VA/FHA home loans, and new tax policies sought to create a “consumer republic” that enhanced the purchasing power, conflating citizenship with consumerism, this new orientation reverberated politically, socially, economically, and spatially. While most writers have focused intensely on housing and school desegregation struggles, others have employed a broader lens, employing critical race theory to popular culture of the age.
