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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nell Irvin Painter |
ISBN: | 0393339742 9780393339741 |
OCLC Number: | 705518880 |
Description: | xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Nell Irvin Painter. |
Abstract:
A New York Times bestseller: "This terrific new book . . . [explores] the 'notion of whiteness,' an idea as dangerous as it is seductive."-Boston Globe
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"One of the most important books ever on the social construction of the notion that there is a 'white' race." "[I]ntriguing and well researched. This is an important addition to the nascent academic field of whiteness studies, which examines the social construction of whiteness with particular attention to the American experience. It should be read by all historians and anyone with an interest in cultural studies." "Compelling, energetic, [and] highly readable." -- Alan Nadel "An insightful and lively exposition from a distinguished scholar." -- Linda Gordon Read more...
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