Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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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 preferred mass-produced and specialized produc.
JSTOR
22573/ctt2kk1nq
Whitewashing America.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- White authors-- History and criticism.
Human skin color in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Material culture-- United States-- History-- 19th century.