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Author Heneghan, Bridget T.

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

Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.

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Description xxvii, 204 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 1578065852 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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