Little white houses: How the postwar home constructed race in America

Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-365

  Harris, Dianne ^a  

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

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