Race, class, and privacy in the ordinary postwar house, 1945-1960

Landscape and Race in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 127-156

  Harris, Dianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876222076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203621622     Document Type: Chapter

References (80)

1. Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race, vol. 1 (London: Verso, 1994)
2. Alastair Bonnett, “White Studies: The Problems and Projects of a New Research Agenda,” Theory, Culture, & Society 13, no. 3 (1996): 145-55
3. Peter Klochin, “Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America,” Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (2002): 154-73
4. Aldon Nielson, Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988)
5. David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991).
6. George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 1-33.
7. Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
8. Joan Rosenbaum, “Foreword,” in Getting Comfortable in New York: The American Jewish Home, 1880-1950 (New York: Jewish Museum, 1990), 7.
9. Peter Ward, A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home (Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press, 1999).
10. Elizabeth Mock, If You Want to Build a House (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946), 40
11. Will Mulhorn, “The Enlarging Window-Straw-in-the-Wind…” House Beautiful, December 1946, 286.
12. Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Coldwar Era (New York: Basic Books, 1988).
13. David Sibley, The Geography of Exclusion: Society and Difference in the West (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), 78.
14. Kevin Fox Gotham, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002), 126.
15. Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (New York: Holmes and Meir, 1978), 394
16. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 85.
17. James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan, Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb (New York and London: Routledge, 2004).
18. Alan F. Westin, Privacy and Freedom (New York: Athaneum, 1967), 172, 174
19. John Cheever, “The Enormous Radio,” in The Stories of John Cheever (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), 33-41.
20. Westin cited “Talk of the Town,” New Yorker, September 21,1957.
21. Nancy G. Duncan and James S. Duncan, “Deep Suburban Irony: The Perils of Democracy in Westchester County, New York,” in Visions of Suburbia, ed. Roger Silverstone (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 164
22. Breines, Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), 26, 27, 30
23. George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), chaps. 1 and 2, especiallypp. 25-33.
24. David Reisman, The Lonely Crowd (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1950), 306
25. Lyman Bryson, The Next America: Prophecy and Faith (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952)
26. Russel Lynes, The Tastemakers (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1954), 246.
27. K.A. Marling, “Designing Popular Culture in the Postwar Era,” Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, ed. B.K. Rapaport and K.L. Slayton (New York: Harry Abrams, 2001), 208-37
28. Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Rejean Legault, “Introduction: Critical Themes ofPostwar Modernism,” in Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), 15, 19
29. Philip H. Ennis, “Leisure in the Suburbs: Research Prolegomenon,” The Suburban Community (NewYork: Putnam's Sons, 1958), 262
30. John Seeley, Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (NewYork: Basic Books, 1956)
31. John Keats, The Crack in the Picture Window (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956)
32. William H. Whyte, The Organization Man (New York: Doubleday, 1956).
33. Wetherell, The Man Who Loved Levittown (Pittsburgh: University ofPittsburgh Press, 1985), 4
34. Barbara M. Kelley's Expanding the American Dream: Building and RebuildingLevittown (Albany: State University ofNewYorkPress, 1993)
35. Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen's Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (New York: Basic Books, 2000).
36. Frith, “The Suburban Sensibility in British Rock and Pop,” in Visions of Suburbia, ed. Roger Silverstone (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 276.
37. Matt Wrayle and Annalee Newitz, eds., White Trash: Race and Class in America (New York: Routledge, 1997).
38. Andrew Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in the Postwar Consumer Culture (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 251-53.
39. Mary Catlin and George Catlin, Building Your New House (New York: Current Books, 1946), 162,160.
40. “Making Your Private World: Modern Landscape Architecture and House Beautiful, 194560,” in The Architecture of Landscape, 1940-60, ed. Marc Treib (Philadelphia: UniversityofPennsylvania Press, 2002), 180-205.
41. Elizabeth Gordon, “The Key to Pace-Setting Living,” House Beautiful, November 1952, 212.
42. Marc Treib, An Everyday Modernism: The Houses of William Wurster (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
43. Elizabeth Gordon, “The Responsibility of an Editor” (manuscript for speech delivered to the Press Club Luncheon of the American Furniture Mart, Chicago, June 22, 1953), 14, 15, 21
44. Joseph Howland, “Good Living Is NOT Public Living,” House Beautiful, January 1950, 30.
45. Calvin Hernton, Sex and Racism in America (New York: Grove Press, 1966)
46. Bell Hooks, “Madonna: Plantation Mistress or Soul Sister,” in Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston: South End Press, 1992), 157-64.
47. Virginia Scott Jenkins, The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession (Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).
48. “How Our Cars Have Changed Our Gardens,” House Beautiful, November 1956,254.
49. Thomas Church, House Beautiful, August 1948, 78
50. Jean Burden, “From Ordinary Back Yard to Country-Club Living,” House Beautiful, August 1958, 72
51. “Mark of a MODERN House-The Paved Terrace,” House Beautiful, November 1952, 220
52. Laura J. Miller, “Family Togetherness and the Suburban Ideal,” Sociological Forum 10, no. 3 (1995): 394
53. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963), 48
54. Andrew Hurley, Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks, 159.
55. A. Quincy Jones, House & Home, January 1957, 142
56. “The Backyard-America's Most Mis-Used Natural Resource,” House Beautiful, January 1949, 37-42
57. Elizabeth Gordon, “Is Privacy Your Right or a Stolen Pleasure?” House Beautiful, May 1960, 152, 232, 234-35
58. Marvin Bressler, “The Myers' Case: An Instance of Successful Racial Invasion,” Social Problems 9 (Fall 1960): 12642.
59. Mark Clapson, Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the United States (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004), chap. 4.
60. Karen Brodkin, How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000).
61. Douglas Baylis, “Privacy Makes Better Outdoor Living,” Better Homes and Gardens, April 1950, 48-54
62. Douglas Baylis, Collection [1999-4], Office Records/Clippings, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
63. The X-100 received a great deal of media attention in the year of its construction, but the privacy wall was featured in Concrete Masonry Review, April 1957, 16-17.
64. “Seclusion by Design,” House and Garden, January 1957, 34-35.
65. Marc Treib, “Aspects of Regionality and the Modern(ist) Garden in California,” in Regional Garden Design in the United States, ed. Therese O‘Malley and Marc Treib (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1995), 15
66. Annmarie Adams, “The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia,” in Gender, Class, and Shelter: Perspectives in Ver-nacular Architecture, ed. Elizabeth Collins Cromley and Carter L. Hudgins (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995), 164-78
67. Elizabeth Gordon, “The 12 Best Houses of the Last 12 Years,” House Beautiful, September 1947, 89.
68. Carolyn Murray, “How an Interior Court Can ‘Save’ a Crowded Lot,” House Beautiful, November 1957, 305
69. Carolyn Murray “Orientation Is More Than Just a Word,” House Beautiful, May 1961, 109
70. Madelaine Thatcher, “How Public Should the Front Entrance Be?” House Beautiful, November 1963, 225.
71. George H. Marcus, Design in the Fifties: When Everyone Went Modern (Munich and New York: Prestel, 1998), 40.
72. Thomas Church, Your Private World: A Study of Intimate Gardens (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1969).
73. Paul Adamson and Marty Arbunich, Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream (Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2002).
74. Lynn Spigel, “From Theatre to Space Ship: Metaphors of Suburban Domesticity in Postwar America,” in Visions of Suburbia, ed. Roger Silverstone (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 221.
75. Sandy Isenstadt, “The Rise and Fall of the Picture Window,” Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1998, 30.
76. Sandy Isenstadt, “The Visual Commodification of Landscape in the Real Estate Appraisal Industry, 1900-1992,” Business and Economic History 28, no. 2 (1999): 65.
77. Suellen Hoy, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), chap. 6.
78. Isenstadt, “The Rise and Fall of the Picture Window,” 30-33.
79. Will Mulhorn, “The Enlarging Window-Straw-In-The-Wind That Shows You the Direction in Which American House Design Is Heading,” House Beautiful, December 1946, 286.
80. Judy Barry, “Report: To the Housewife,” Ladies' Home Journal, November 1945,195.