Description: Little White Houses : How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America, Paperback by Harris, Dianne, ISBN 0816654565, ISBN-13 9780816654567, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "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 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 furnitureand 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 detailed, Little White Houses adds a new dimension to our understanding of race in America and the inequalities that persist in the . housing market. "--
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Book Title: Little White Houses : How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 2 in
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: United States / 20th Century, History / Contemporary (1945-), Buildings / Residential, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / Physical
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Architecture, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 37.2 Oz
Author: Dianne Harris
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 10 in
Book Series: Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
