To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.

Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.

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Segregation in literature

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To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.

Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.