Rewriting white : race, class, and cultural capital in nineteenth-century America

Rewriting white : race, class, and cultural capital in nineteenth-century America / Todd Vogel.

What did it mean for people of color in nineteenth-century America to speak or write "white"? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such "white" writing carry? In ReWriting White, Todd Vogel looks at how America has racialized language and aesthetic achievem...

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Main Author: Vogel, Todd, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Minorities > United States > Intellectual life.
Social classes in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > Minority authors
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnicity in literature
Literature and society
Minorities in literature
Minorities > Intellectual life
Race in literature
Social classes in literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Speaking to the whiteness of the brain
  • William Apess's theater and a "Native" American history
  • Sharpening the pen : racial and aesthetic transformation
  • Anna Julia Cooper and the Black orator
  • Edith Eaton plays the Chinese water lily.

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