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Never one nation : freaks, savages, and whiteness in U.S. popular culture, 1850-1877
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Never one nation : freaks, savages, and whiteness in U.S. popular culture, 1850-1877 / Linda Frost.
ISBN
0816644896 (alk. paper)
081664490X (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
Physical Description
xix, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 23, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-229) and index.
Contents
Introduction : blinding whiteness and "the wonder of America"
Roving savages, regionalized Americanness, and the 1862 Dakota Wars
Emancipation anxiety and the New York City draft riots
The white gaze, the spectacle of slavery, and the Circassian beauty
A peculiar identity in the Confederate Southern Illustrated News
The Yankee, the stump, and the creation of a Confederate imaginary
What the railroad brought : the "heathen Chinee" and a nation in the West
The woman question, coast to coast
Conclusion : consumption, community, and the correspondence column.
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