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

By: Heneghan, Bridget TContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003Description: xxvii, 204 p. : illSubject(s): American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Race in literature | American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism | Material culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Human skin color in literature | Material culture in literature | Segregation in literature | Slavery in literature | Racism in literature | White in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813.009/355 LOC classification: PS374.R32 | H465 2003Online resources: Click to View
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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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