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Never one nation : freaks, savages, and whiteness in U.S. popular culture, 1850-1877
- Title
- Never one nation : freaks, savages, and whiteness in U.S. popular culture, 1850-1877 / Linda Frost.
- Author
- Frost, Linda.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Supplementary Content
- Contributor biographical information
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- Description
- xix, 241 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Indians in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Racism in popular culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Freak shows > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century
- Whites > Race identity > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 05-772
- ISBN
- 0816644896 (alk. paper)
- 081664490X (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004022992
- OCLC
- 56686376
- Author
- Frost, Linda.
- Title
- Never one nation : freaks, savages, and whiteness in U.S. popular culture, 1850-1877 / Linda Frost.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-229) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- Sc E 05-772ILH 05-5026