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• Title: Wright-Ing White: The Construction of Race in Women's 19th Century Didactic Texts (Julia Mcnair Wright) (Critical Essay)
• Author : Journal of Thought
• Release Date : January 22, 2006
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 223 KB

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"... until very recently, and regardless of the race of the author, the readers of virtually all of American fiction have been positioned as White. I am interested to know what that assumption has meant to the literary imagination."--Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. In this article, I focus on texts written by one minor but prolific White female educator who published from 1856 to 1902. The tracts are purportedly aimed toward improving women's domestic skills and teaching children in entertaining ways the seemingly raceless subjects of botany, astronomy, and natural science. Yet, amidst lessons about beetles, ants, and needlepoint, the texts bear the imprint of a gendered 19th century racial imaginary and circulating anxieties about the uncertain boundaries of Whiteness. However innocent or raceless educational tracts may appear, writing has tremendous power to manufacture, sculpt, and deploy narrations of race and racial identity, to translate imaginary renderings of human beings into seemingly concrete yet always insufficient entities, to freeze free-floating cultural sentiment into material and consumable symbols. Writing didactic texts in the 19th century, I argue, is a racial act.

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