Pride and paranoia: Race and the emergence of home security in Cold War America
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2014
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Caluya, G.
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Continuum, 2014; 28(6):808-819
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This article traces the emergence of home security systems within the context ofhousing desegregation and suburbanization in post-war America. It aims to analyse thephysical materiality of home security systems within the context of racialized materialinequality, drawing on advertisements and newspaper articles at the time. It argues thatthe growing obsession with home security that accompanied post-war domesticmaterial cultures paralleled the increasing urban racial panic exemplified by housingriots and civil rights disorders. Home security could be read in this context as a way toregain control over private space at the very moment that conservative white, middleclassAmericans felt they were losing control of public space
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Copyright 2014 Taylor & Francis