03593nam 2200829 a 450 991045138500332120200520144314.01-283-85101-61-60473-046-31-4237-3198-0(CKB)1000000000457594(EBL)1078750(OCoLC)823380994(SSID)ssj0000271365(PQKBManifestationID)11205642(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271365(PQKBWorkID)10294699(PQKB)10654220(MiAaPQ)EBC1078750(OCoLC)62256919(MdBmJHUP)muse24769(MiAaPQ)EBC4977773(Au-PeEL)EBL1078750(CaPaEBR)ebr10157885(Au-PeEL)EBL4977773(CaONFJC)MIL416351(EXLCZ)99100000000045759420030201d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhitewashing America[electronic resource] material culture and race in the antebellum imagination /Bridget T. HeneghanJackson University Press of Mississippic20031 online resource (233 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-934110-99-X 1-57806-585-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.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. 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 prefeAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismRace in literatureAmerican literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticismMaterial cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryHuman skin color in literatureMaterial culture in literatureSegregation in literatureSlavery in literatureRacism in literatureWhite in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Race in literature.American literatureWhite authorsHistory and criticism.Material cultureHistoryHuman skin color in literature.Material culture in literature.Segregation in literature.Slavery in literature.Racism in literature.White in literature.813.009/355Heneghan Bridget T1048921MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451385003321Whitewashing America2477533UNINA