Whitewashing America

Bridget T. Heneghan

earliest edition we have, 2003 University Press of Mississippi, 2012

"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." "Along with analyzing physical materials, Heneghan examines the nineteenth-century citizens' increasing concerns with cleanliness, dental care, and complexion. These hygienic conce...

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Whitewashing America edition · 2012 · University Press of Mississippi · 9781283851015
Whitewashing America edition · 2009 · University Press of Mississippi · 9781604730463
Whitewashing America edition · 2007 · University Press of Mississippi · 224 pages · 9781934110997
Whitewashing America edition · 2003 · University Press of Mississippi · 204 pages

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