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.
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