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MOCATALKS: Is there a “Right” Way to Live in a Home? | Re-seeing the American House

The single family detached house with a manicured front lawn is synonymous with the American domestic landscape. Maintaining a perfectly mowed lawn became the suburban code of conduct and an American status symbol. For the Chinese casino workers living in the suburban Connecticut neighborhood adjacent to Mohegan Sun, these front lawns have become places to grow vegetables, socialize, park cars, hang laundry, and even dry fish. Guest curator of SUB URBANISMS: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, Stephen Fan, unpacks the origins and implications of these interventions to the suburban single family house and what they mean to our prevailing norms of beauty, order and socio-cultural ideals of home.

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When: Thu., Oct. 22, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St.
212-619-4785
Price: $12 adult, $7 student and senior, free for MOCA members
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The single family detached house with a manicured front lawn is synonymous with the American domestic landscape. Maintaining a perfectly mowed lawn became the suburban code of conduct and an American status symbol. For the Chinese casino workers living in the suburban Connecticut neighborhood adjacent to Mohegan Sun, these front lawns have become places to grow vegetables, socialize, park cars, hang laundry, and even dry fish. Guest curator of SUB URBANISMS: Casino Urbanization, Chinatowns, and the Contested American Landscape, Stephen Fan, unpacks the origins and implications of these interventions to the suburban single family house and what they mean to our prevailing norms of beauty, order and socio-cultural ideals of home.

For more information, please visit our website: www.mocanyc.org.

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