Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination [blackatk]

Publication Date: November 30, 2007 | ISBN-10: 193411099X | ISBN-13: 978-1934110997 | With A special thanks to "wetworx12" - The bitter, race-baiting troll who inspired this upload | filetype: pdf |


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 products, avoiding the former dark, coarse, low-quality products issued to slaves. White consumers knit around themselves refined domestic items, visual reminders of who they were, equating wealth, discipline, and purity with the racially "white."

Clothing, paint, dinnerware, gravestones, and buildings staked a visual contrast, a portable, visible title and deed segregating upper-class whites from their lower-class neighbors and household servants.

This book explores what it meant to be "white" by delving into the whiteness of dishes, gravestone art, and architecture, as well as women's clothing and corsets, cleanliness and dental care, and complexion.

Early nineteenth-century authors participated in this material economy as well, building their literary landscapes in the same way their readers furnished their households and manipulating the understood meanings of things into political statements.


About the Author

Bridget T. Heneghan is a lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University, and has been published in Nineteentht-Century Studies.


Paperback: 204 pages
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (November 30, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193411099X
ISBN-13: 978-1934110997


http://www.amazon.com/Whitewashing-America-Material-Antebellum-Imagination/dp/193411099X/


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