Nell Painter - The History Of White People

Mar 23 2010 7:00 pm
Painter’s study of race centers on the invention of a white race and the characteristics attributed to it for economic, political, and scientific ends. A historian, Painter traces notions of whiteness back to the roots of Western civilization, through the 18th-century construction of American identity, and on to changes in notions of a white race in response to Malcolm X, the Civil Rights struggle, and more recent discussions of a post-racial society.

The History of White People (Hardcover)

By Nell Irvin Painter
$27.95
ISBN-13: 9780393049343
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 3/2010
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