Review of Dianne Harris (2013) Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America (Univ MN Press) (original) (raw)
It may be surprising to most readers that one of the most ubiquitous features of residential landscapes all across the United States has received so little scholarly attention as to be almost invisible - the ordinary postwar house. Dianne Harris' new book ably challenges this entrenched invisibility on at least two significant fronts: first, the fundamental lack of focus on articulations between race and architecture, especially in the historical accounts of mid-century suburban landscapes; second, the often missing analysis of built environments on the part of historians and others interested in the formation of population racial thinking - even in the places such as newly developing mid-century suburbs, where nonwhite exclusion was most pervasive. [... continues...]
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