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Book Review
| ReWriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. By Todd Vogel. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8135-3431-3. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 08135-3432-1.)
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| The rhetoric of race intertwined with the race of rhetoric in the nineteenth century. It was understood that only an educated white man could produce powerful, deductive arguments: intelligence and eloquence depended upon Caucasian anatomy and the vigor of the Anglo-Saxon language. Todd Vogel's ReWriting White examines how nonwhite writers responded to this standard by mastering and then reshaping its white supremacist ideology. |
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