{"product_id":"whitewashing-america-bridget-t-heneghan-9781934110997","title":"Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination","description":"Even before mass marketing, American consumers bought products that gentrified their households and broadcast their sense of \"the good things in life.\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bridget T. Heneghan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193411099X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934110997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bridget T. Heneghan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962705891583,"sku":"9781934110997","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5c29beb-c693-4275-8ab5-afd88bd0db1d.jpg?v=1750652279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/whitewashing-america-bridget-t-heneghan-9781934110997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}