

An edition of The history of White people (2010)
By Nell Irvin Painter
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
eng
Pages
496
Description:
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.