The history of white people / Nell Irvin Painter.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton, 2011.Description: xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780393339741
- 0393339742
- 305.8 IRV
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Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 305.8 IRV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100561142 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of "whiteness" for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of "race" is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-456) and index.
Greeks and Scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The white beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names white people caucasian -- Germaine de staël\'s German lessons -- Early American white people observed -- The first alien wave -- The education of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English traits -- Emerson in the history of American white people -- The American school of anthropology -- The second enlargement of American whiteness -- William Z. Ripley and the races of Europe -- Franz Boas, dissenter -- Roosevelt, Ross, and race suicide -- The discovery of degenerate families -- From degenerate families to sterilization -- Intelligence testing of new immigrants -- The great unrest -- The melting pot a failure? -- Anthroposociology : the science of alien races -- Refuting racial science -- A new white race politics -- The third enlargement of American whiteness -- Black nationalism and white ethnics -- The fourth enlargement of American whiteness.
Traces the idea of a white race, showing how the origins of the American identity were tied to the elevation of white skin as the embodiment of beauty, power, and intelligence, and how even intellectuals insisted that only Anglo Saxons were truly American.