CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Pot Calling the Kettle
White Goods and the Construction of Race in Antebellum America

2. Living on White Bread
Class Considerations and the Refinement of Whiteness

3. Unmentionable Things Unmentioned
Constructing Femininity with White Things

4. See Spot Run
White Things in the Rhetoric of Racial, Moral, and Hygienic Purity

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index