The Instagram post accompanying this photo illustration references a seminal manuscript dealing with racialized hygiene, Tidy Whiteness: A Genealogy of Race, Purity, and Hygiene, by Dana Berthold.
Books that address race and the social construction of hygiene practices and language include:
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States, by Carl A. Zimring.
Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity, by Virginia Smith.
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