Class, Culture, Representation

Week 4 Day 1 Discussion Question 4

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At the start of her essay, Barbara Kelly suggests that access to suburban housing and other benefits of the G.I. Bill “served to domesticate the American workers,” garnering their consent for middle-class cultural ideals.  But Shelley Nickles offers a somewhat different perspective on how working-class people responded to the new, postwar ideals of consumerism and home ownership.  How is her view different from Kelly’s?

Author: Holly Allen

I am an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Middlebury College. I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, gender studies, disability, and consumer culture.

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