Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 Book

1	Ordinary families, popular culture, and popular democracy, 1935-1945
	Radio's formula drama	7
	Popular theater and popular democracy	10
	Popular democracy on the radio	14
	Popular democracy in wartime : multiethnic and multiracial?	21
	Representing the soldier	24
	The new world of the home front	28
	Soldiers as veterans : imagining the postwar world	33
2	Making the working-class family ordinary : A tree grows in Brooklyn
	From working-class daughter to working-class writer	44
	Revising 1930s radical visions	47
	Remembering a working-class past	49
	Instructing the middle class	52
	The ethnic and racial boundaries of the ordinary	54
	Making womanhood ordinary	59
	Hollywood revises A tree grows in Brooklyn	62
	The declining appeal to Tree's social terrain	71
3	Home front harmony and remembering Mama
	"Mama's bank account" and other ethnic working-class fictions	78
	Remembering mama on the stage	84
	The mother next door on film, 1947-1948	89
	Mama on CBS, 1949-1956	97
	The appeal of TV Mama's ordinary family	104
4	Loving across prewar racial and sexual boundaries
	Lillian Smith and Strange fruit	111
	Quality reinstates the color line	117
	Strange fruit as failed social drama	123
	The returning Negro soldier, interracial romance, and Deep are the roots	128
	Interracial male homosociability in Home of the brave	134
5	Seeing through Jewishness
	Perception and racial boundaries in Focus	142
	Policing racial and gender boundaries in The brick foxhole	145
	Recasting the victim in Crossfire	150
	Deracializing Jewishness in Gentleman's agreement	156
6	Hollywood makes race (in)visible
	"A great step forward" : the film Home of the brave	170
	Lost boundaries : racial indeterminacy as whiteness	174
	Pinky : racial indeterminacy as blackness	184
	Trading places or no way out?	198
7	Competing postwar representations of universalism
	The "truly universal people" : Richard Durham's Destination freedom	208
	The evolution of Arthur Miller's ordinary family	215
	Miller's search for "the people," 1947-1948	220
	The creation of an ordinary American tragedy : Death of a Salesman	223
	The rising tide of anticommunism	233
8	Marital realism and everyman love stories
	Marital realism before and after the blacklist	244
	The promise of live television drama	255
	Paddy Chayefsky's Everyman ethnicity	259
	Conservative and corporate constraints on representing the ordinary	267
	Filming television's ordinary : Marty's everyman romance	274
9	Reracializing the ordinary American family : Raisin in the sun
	Lorraine Hansberry's south side childhood	284
	Leaving home, stepping "deliberately against the beat"	290
	The Freedom family and the black left	293
	"I am a writer" : Hansberry in Greenwich Village	304
	Raisin in the sun : Hansberry's conception, audience reception	310
	Frozen in the frame : the film of Raisin	322
	Vision of belonging	325