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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Baldwin, Kate A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2016]
Series:	Re-mapping the transnational.
Subjects:	United States > Relations > Soviet Union. Soviet Union > Relations > United States. Cold War > Political aspects. Propaganda > History > 20th century. Kitchens > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Kitchens > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History. Race > Political aspects > History > 20th century. Sex role > Political aspects > History > 20th century. Kitchens in literature. Kitchens > In mass media.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Cold War, hot kitchen
Envy and other warm guns : Ray and Charles Eames at the American National Exhibition in Moscow
Reframing the Cold War kitchen : Sylvia Plath, Byt, and the radical imaginary of The bell jar
Alice Childress, Natalya Baranskaya, and the conditions of Cold War womanhood
Lorraine Hansberry and the social life of emotions
Selling the homeland : Silk Stockings, stilyagi, and style
Epilogue: A kitchen in history.