1. Ordinary families, popular culture, and popular democracy, 1935-1945 -- Looking back stories -- 2. Making the working-class family ordinary: a tree grows in Brooklyn -- 3. Home front harmony and remembering Mama -- Trading places stories -- Trading places stories -- 4. Loving across prewar racial and sexual boundaries -- 5. Seeing through Jewishness -- 6. Hollywood makes race (in)visible -- Everyman stories -- 7. Competing postwar representations of universalism -- 8. Marital realism and everyman love stories -- 9. Reracializing the ordinary American family: Raisin in the sun
