The racial imaginary of the Cold War kitchen : From Sokolʹniki Park to Chicago's South Side /
Race, domesticity and consumerism in the Cold War era. This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen, the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism, was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hanover, New Hampshire :
Dartmouth College Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Re-mapping the transnational.
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| Summary: | Race, domesticity and consumerism in the Cold War era. This book demonstrates the ways in which the kitchen, the centerpiece of domesticity and consumerism, was deployed as a recurring motif in the ideological and propaganda battles of the Cold War. Beginning with the famous Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate, Baldwin shows how Nixon turned the kitchen into a space of exception, while contemporary writers, artists and activists depicted it as a site of cultural resistance. Focusing on a wide variety of literature and media from the United States and the Soviet Union, Baldwin reveals how the binary logic at work in Nixon's discourse, setting U.S. freedom against Soviet totalitarianism, erased the histories of slavery, gender subordination, colonialism and racial genocide. The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen treats the kitchen as symptomatic of these erasures, connecting issues of race, gender and social difference across national boundaries. This rich and rewarding study, embracing the literature, film and photography of the era, will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 236 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611688627 (cloth : alkaline paper) 1611688620 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9781611688634 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1611688639 (paperback : alkaline paper) |