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

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
	©2004

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E169 .S655 2004	Available	---

Description	xiv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Popular cultures, everyday lives
	Popular cultures, everyday lives.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-424) and index.
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.
Subject	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Popular culture.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Arts, American -- 20th century.
	Arts, American.
	Families -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Families.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
	Manners and customs.
Chronological Term	1918-1945
Subject	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
Chronological Term	1945-1970
ISBN	0231121717 paperback alkaline paper
	0231121709 cloth alkaline paper
	9780231121705 cloth alkaline paper
	9780231121712 paperback alkaline paper