Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination /
Literary criticism -- American history --> Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of "the good things in life." Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America:...
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| Language: | English |
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University Press of Mississippi,
2003
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Table of 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.
