During this time period veterans and civilians began searching for homes outside the cities and into the newly built suburbs. During the late 1940’s and through the early1960’s, America went through a massive migration to the suburbs. While historians agree that post war suburbia was the birth of our modern middle class socio status and the redefining of the American dreams many argue whether or not the post war suburbs of the 1950’s and 1960’s good or bad for America. In this paper I will discuss the rise of the American dream as homeownership during post war America; by focusing on the rise of the middle class and core middle class social values portrayed in the media and specifically looking at Levittown communities (New York and Pennsylvania) as well exploring how the idea of this middle class utopia became problematic by examining how developers and government used tools of exclusion to exclude minorities from experiencing the “American Dream” from the prospective of the white majority view points and minority view
During this time period veterans and civilians began searching for homes outside the cities and into the newly built suburbs. During the late 1940’s and through the early1960’s, America went through a massive migration to the suburbs. While historians agree that post war suburbia was the birth of our modern middle class socio status and the redefining of the American dreams many argue whether or not the post war suburbs of the 1950’s and 1960’s good or bad for America. In this paper I will discuss the rise of the American dream as homeownership during post war America; by focusing on the rise of the middle class and core middle class social values portrayed in the media and specifically looking at Levittown communities (New York and Pennsylvania) as well exploring how the idea of this middle class utopia became problematic by examining how developers and government used tools of exclusion to exclude minorities from experiencing the “American Dream” from the prospective of the white majority view points and minority view