Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America 9780816653324

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Автор: Dianne Harris
Название: Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
ISBN: 9780816653324
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

История архитектуры

История Америк

Послевоенная история 20 века: с 1945 по 2000

Социальная история и история культуры

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ISBN-10: 0816653321
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 392
Вес: 1.26 кг.
Дата издания: 19.02.2013
Серия: Architecture, landscape, and american culture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 133 b/w illustrations
Размер: 26.16 x 20.57 x 2.54 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History of architecture,History of the Americas, ARCHITECTURE / General,ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-),HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Подзаголовок: How the postwar home constructed race in america
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues to resonate today. Drawing from popular and trade magazines, floor plans and architectural drawings, television programs, advertisements, and beyond, Dianne Harris shows how the depiction of houses and their interiors, furnishings, and landscapes shaped and reinforced the ways in which Americans perceived white, middle-class identities and helped support a housing market already defined by racial segregation and deep economic inequalities.After describing the ordinary postwar house and its orderly, prescribed layout, Harris analyzes how cultural iconography associated these houses with middle-class whites and an ideal of white domesticity. She traces how homeowners were urged to buy specific kinds of furniture and other domestic objects and how the appropriate storage and display of these possessions was linked to race and class by designers, tastemakers, and publishers. Harris also investigates lawns, fences, indoor-outdoor spaces, and other aspects of the postwar home and analyzes their contribution to the assumption that the rightful owners of ordinary houses were white.Richly detailed, Little White Houses adds a new dimension to our understanding of race in America and the inequalities that persist in the U.S. housing market.

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America, Dianne Harris