The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter.
Painter, Nell Irvin.
2010
E184.A1 P29 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter.
Author Painter, Nell Irvin.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780393049343
0393049345
Imprint New York, NY : W.W. Norton, c2010.
Language English
Description xii, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E184.A1 P29 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973
Summary Historian Painter centers her momentous study of racial classification on the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the United States in the 18th century, when thinkers led by Ralph Waldo Emerson strove to explain the rapid progress of America within the context of white superiority. Her research is filled with frequent, startling realizations about how tenuous and temporary our racial classifications really are.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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