Making suburbia : new histories of everyday America /
"What are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses would have us believe that suburbia is a boring, homogeneous, and alienating place. But this stereotypical portrayal of the suburbs tells us very lit...
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University of Minnesota Press,
2015
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Table of 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.
