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The history of White people

By Nell Irvin Painter

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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.