Whitewashing America [electronic resource] : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.
Publication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.Description: xxvii, 204 p. : illISBN:- 1578065852 (cloth : alk. paper)
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism
- Human skin color in literature
- Material culture in literature
- Material culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Race in literature
- Racism in literature
- Segregation in literature
- Slavery in literature
- White in literature
- 813.009/355 21
- PS374.R32 H465 2003eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.
The pot calling the kettle : white goods and the construction of race in antebellum America -- Living on white bread : class considerations and the refinement of whiteness -- Unmentionable things unmentioned : constructing femininity with white things -- See Spot run : white things in the rhetoric of racial, moral, and hygienic purity.
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