{"product_id":"whitewashing-america-material-culture-and-race-in-the-antebellum-imagination-paperback","title":"Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBridget T. Heneghan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEven before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of \"the good things in life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging literary scholarship, archeology, history, and art history, \u003ci\u003eWhitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Revolutionary Way until the Civil War, American consumers increasingly sought white-colored goods. Whites preferred mass-produced and specialized products, avoiding the former dark, course, low-quality products issued to slaves. White consumers surrounded themselves with refined domestic items, visual reminders of who they were, equating wealth, discipline, and purity with the racially \"white.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClothing, 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 househo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBridget T. Heneghan\u003c\/b\u003e, a lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University, has been published in \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637559685427,"sku":"9781934110997","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/buMuB6xhGC9781934110997.webp?v=1762293212","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/whitewashing-america-material-culture-and-race-in-the-antebellum-imagination-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}