Whitewashing America [electronic resource] : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.Description: xxvii, 204 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.009/355 21
LOC classification:
  • PS374.R32 H465 2003eb
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Contents:
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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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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