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Author Smith, Judith E., 1948-

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

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 444 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Summary -- Elaine May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
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
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Judith E., 1948- Visions of belonging. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 0231121709 0231121717 (DLC) 2003067481 (OCoLC)53796905
ISBN 023150926X (electronic book)
9780231509268 (electronic book)
0231121709 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231121705 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231121717 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780231121712 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780231121705
9780231121712
Music No. EB00662358 Recorded Books