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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. Ever Since The Enlightenment, Race Theory And Its Inevitable Partner, Racism, Have Followed A Crooked Road, Constructed By Dominant Peoples To Justify Their Domination Of Others. Filling A Huge Gap In Historical Literature That Long Focused On The Non-white, Eminent Historian Nell Irvin Painter Guides Us Through More Than Two Thousand Years Of Western Civilization, Tracing Not Only The Invention Of The Idea Of Race But Also The Frequent Worship Of 'whiteness' For Economic, Social, Scientific, And Political Ends. Our Story Begins In Greek And Roman Antiquity, Where The Concept Of Race Did Not Exist, Only Geography And The Opportunity To Conquer And Enslave Others. Not Until The Eighteenth Century Did An Obsession With Whiteness Flourish, With The Germa

Who reads The History of White People?

Author

Nell Irvin Painter

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393049343

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Science, Sociology

Rating

3.95 / 5 (1,217 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13