Whitewashing America [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / / Bridget T. Heneghan
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Heneghan Bridget T
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| Titolo: |
Whitewashing America [[electronic resource] ] : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / / Bridget T. Heneghan
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/355 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Whitewashing America |
| ISBN: | 1-283-85101-6 |
| 1-60473-046-3 | |
| 1-4237-3198-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451385003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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