Little white houses : how the postwar home constructed race in America

Publication Data

• Title Little white houses : how the postwar home constructed race in America
• Author Dianne Suzette Harris
• Publisher University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Minneapolis
• Language English

Contents

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Contents
Preface
Introduction: Race and the Residential Sphere
1. The Ordinary Postwar House
2. Magazine Lessons: Publishing the Lexicon of White Domesticity
3. Rendered Whiteness: Architectural Drawings and Graphics
4. Private Worlds: The Spatial Contours of Exclusion and Privilege
5. Household Goods: Purchasing and Consuming Identity
6. Built-ins and Closets: Status, Storage, and Display
7. The Home Show: Televising the Postwar House
8. Designing the Yard: Gardens, Property, and Landscape
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.

Topics

• Architecture and race :: United States
• Mass media and architecture :: United States
• Architecture, Domestic :: United States :: History :: 20th century
• Whites :: Race identity :: United States :: History :: 20th century

Little white houses : how the postwar home constructed race in America by Dianne Suzette Harris. ISBN 9780816654567. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.