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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451385003321

Autore

Heneghan Bridget T

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003

ISBN

1-283-85101-6

1-60473-046-3

1-4237-3198-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

813.009/355

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum



Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity.   From the Revolutionary War until the Civil War, American consumers increasingly sought white-colored goods. Whites prefe