- Whites, Race relations, Race identity, History
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.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and cool.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Nell Irvin Painter
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W W Norton Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393049343
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American historian known for her works on United States Southern history of the nineteenth century
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