@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt83jhq9.13, ISBN = {9780822943891}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt83jhq9.13}, abstract = {In 1945, Frank Sinatra starred in a short film that focused on questions of racial and ethnic difference and acceptance. TitledThe House I Live In,it featured a song of the same name that became a patriotic hit for Sinatra, and the film won a special Academy Award in 1946.¹ As the film opens, a young boy—whom the audience can identify as Jewish because of his two long locks of hair orpayes—is chased through a city street by a gang of boys his same age. The young hoodlums, all white, taunt the boy and are about}, author = {Dell Upton}, booktitle = {Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania}, pages = {200--242}, publisher = {University of Pittsburgh Press}, title = {“The House I Live In”: Architecture, Modernism, and Identity in Levittown}, year = {2010} }