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Title:
Making suburbia : new histories of everyday America / John Archer, Paul J.P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson, editors ; afterword by Margaret Crawford.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
xxv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject:
Suburban life--United States.
Suburbs--United States--History.
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
United States.
History.
Other Authors:
Archer, John, 1947- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82236774
Sandul, Paul J. P., editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007009053
Solomonson, Katherine, 1956- editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00011467
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The social fallout of racial politics: civic engagement in suburban Pasadena, 1950-2000 / Becky M. Nicolaides -- Race, planning, and activism on Philadelphia's Main Line / Trecia Pottinger -- Defending "women who stand by the sink": suburban homemakers and anti-ERA activism in New York State / Stacie Taranto -- Gay organizing in the "desert of suburbia" of metropolitan Detroit / Tim Retzloff -- Ecological preservation in suburban Atlanta / Christopher Sellers -- Metaburbia: the evolving suburb in contemporary fiction / Martin Dines -- Suburban memory works: historical representation and meaning in Orangevale, California / Paul J. P. Sandul -- Does this place really matter?: the preservation debate in Denver's postwar suburbs / Heather Bailey -- Yards and everyday life in Minneapolis / Ursula Lang -- Suburban rhetorics: planning and design for American shopping, 1930-1960 / David Smiley -- This old house of the future: remixing progress and nostalgia in suburban domestic design / Holley Wlodarczyk -- Everyday racialization: contesting space and identity in suburban St. Louis / Jodi Rios -- The vibrant life of Asian malls in Silicon Valley / Willow Lung-Aman -- Spaces for youth in suburban Protestant churches / Gretchen Buggeln -- Sanctifying the SUV: megachurches, the Prosperity Gospel, and the suburban Christian / Charity R. Carney -- The fabric of spying: double agents and the suburban Cold War / Andrew Friedman -- Selling suburbia: Marshall Erdman's marketing strategies for prefabricated buildings in the postwar United States / Anna Vemer Andrzejewski -- A tiny orchestra in the living room: high-fidelity sounds, stereo systems, and the postwar house / Dianne Harris -- Suburban noise: getting inside garage rock / Steve Waksman -- The complex: social difference and the suburban apartment in postwar America / Matthew Gordon Lasner -- The outdoor kitchen and twenty-first century domesticity / Beverly K. Grindstaff.
ISBN:
0816692998
9780816692996
0816692963
9780816692965
OCLC:
(OCoLC)894746325
LCCN:
2015000050
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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