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03744aam a22004698i 4500 001 8CEEFB2E9B6211E2989A5ACADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130402015604 008 120907s2013 mnu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2012036292 020 $a 0816654565 (pb) 020 $a 9780816654567 (pb) 020 $a 0816653321 (hardback) 020 $a 9780816653324 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)809845154 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YBM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a NA2543.R37 $b H37 2013 082 00 $a 728.01/030973 $2 23 084 $a HIS036060 $a HIS036060 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Harris, Dianne Suzette. 245 10 $a Little white houses : $b how the postwar home constructed race in America / $c Dianne Harris. 260 $a Minneapolis : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c 2013. 263 $a 1301 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Architecture, landscape and American culture 520 $a "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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The ordinary postwar house -- Magazine lessons : Publishing the Lexicon of White Domesticity -- Rendered whiteness : architectural drawings and graphics -- Private worlds : the spatial contours of exclusion and privilege -- Household goods : purchasing and consuming identity -- Built-ins and closets : status, storage, and display -- The Home Show : televising the postwar house -- Designing the yard : gardens, property, and landscape. 650 0 $a Architecture and race $z United States. 650 0 $a Mass media and architecture $z United States. 650 0 $a Architecture, Domestic $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Whites $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091500.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105041005.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917012217.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20130402022154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8CEEFB2E9B6211E2989A5ACADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search