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Homes
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Objects That Matter: White Picket Fence
In the 1940s, the mass-produced tract homes that formed Levittown, New York—one of America's first suburbs—specifically barred "any person other than members of the Caucasian race" in their leases.
A Proper Entrance: Creole Culture and the Social Construction of Space
A sociologist notices an architectural oddity at the Laura Plantation in Louisiana.