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Author:

Heneghan, Bridget T.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxvii, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9781578065851 (cloth : alk. paper)
1578065852 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51615270

LCCN:

2003002247

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)