Visions of belonging : family stories, popular culture, and postwar democracy, 1940-1960 /

Visions of belonging : family stories, popular culture, and postwar democracy, 1940-1960 / Judith E. Smith.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Judith E., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Series:Popular cultures, everyday lives
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Arts, American > 20th century.
Families > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945.
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ordinary families, popular culture, and popular democracy, 1935-1945
  • Looking back stories
  • 2. Making the working-class family ordinary: a tree grows in Brooklyn
  • 3. Home front harmony and remembering Mama
  • Trading places stories
  • Trading places stories
  • 4. Loving across prewar racial and sexual boundaries
  • 5. Seeing through Jewishness
  • 6. Hollywood makes race (in)visible
  • Everyman stories
  • 7. Competing postwar representations of universalism
  • 8. Marital realism and everyman love stories
  • 9. Reracializing the ordinary American family: Raisin in the sun.

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