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The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen
Kate A. Baldwin
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Paperback. Race, domesticity, and consumerism in the Cold War era Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Dartmouth College Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611688634
SKU
V9781611688634
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