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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460793303321

Titolo

Making suburbia : new histories of everyday America / / John Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson, editors ; afterword by Margaret Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-4460-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (419 p.)

Disciplina

307.740973

Soggetti

Suburban life - United States

Suburbs - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I. Mobilizing; 1. The Social Fallout of Racial Politics; 2. Race, Planning, and Activism on Philadelphia's Main Line; 3. Defending "Women Who Stand by the Sink"; 4. Gay Organizing in the "Desert of Suburbia" of Metropolitan Detroit; 5. Ecological Preservation in Suburban Atlanta; II. Representing; 6. Metaburbia; 7. Suburban Memory Works; 8. Does This Place Really Matter?; 9. Yards and Everyday Life in Minneapolis; 10. Suburban Rhetorics; 11. This Old House of the Future; III. Gathering; 12. Everyday Racialization; 13. The Vibrant Life of Asian Malls in Silicon Valley

14. Spaces for Youth in Suburban Protestant Churches 15. Sanctifying the SUV; IV. Building; 16. The Fabric of Spying; 17. Selling Suburbia; 18. A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room; 19. Suburban Noise; 20. The Complex; 21. The Outdoor Kitchen and Twenty-First-Century Domesticity; Afterword; Contributors