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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogel, Todd, 1959-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ©2004.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj5fg
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.