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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 achievement. To make his point, he showcases the surprisingly complex interactions between four nineteenth-century writers of color and the "standard white English" they adapted for their own moral, political, and social ends. The African American, Native American, and Chinese Americ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813537509 9780813537504 9780813534312 0813534313 9780813534329 0813534321 9780813558356 0813558352 |