Suburbia
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Our suburbs are interminable wastelands dotted with millions of monotonous little houses on monotonous little lots and crisscrossed by highways lined with billboards, jazzed-up diners, used-car lots, drive-in movies, beflagged gas stations, and garish motels." --God's Own Junkyard (1964) by Peter Blake |
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The suburbs and all that pertains to or characterizes them; the suburbs as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics.
Suburbia stereotypes
In many urban comedies, whites are portrayed as exaggeratedly nerdy, tense, rich, vapid, unstylish suburbanites. The trend is often cited as having been popularized with Eddie Murphy's experimentation with Whiteface, which itself was based upon earlier comedians, including Richard Pryor. Younger whites are also stereotyped as heavy metal, rock, or country fans, with older whites stereotyped as fans of Big band, or opera. In some stereotypes, whites are depicted as all liking "light" music such as Smothers Brothers or New Age types of music. Also all whites are stereotyped as having an appetite for pancakes, apple pie, pizza, and barbeque.
See also
- Bibliography of suburbs
- Boomburbs
- Developed environments
- Ethnoburb
- Faubourg
- Levittown, Pennsylvania
- List of largest suburbs by population
- London commuter belt
- Microdistrict
- Penurbia
- Settlement types
- Suburbia bashing
- Urban rural fringe