{"id":4073,"date":"2009-12-27T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2019-11-22T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T23:12:09","slug":"the-history-of-white-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"The History of White People"},"content":{"rendered":"

The History of White People<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\nMarch 2010
\n448 pages
\n6.125 \u00d7 9.25 in
\nISBN: 978-0-393-04934-3<\/p>\n

Nell Irvin Painter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of \u201cwhiteness<\/a>\u201d\u2014an illuminating work on the history of race and power.<\/p>\n

Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history. Beginning at the roots of Western civilization<\/a>, she traces the invention of the idea of a white race\u2014often for economic, scientific, and political ends. She shows how the origins of American identity in the eighteenth century were intrinsically tied to the elevation of white skin into the embodiment of beauty, power, and intelligence; how the great American intellectuals\u2014 including Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>\u2014insisted that only Anglo Saxons<\/a> were truly American; and how the definitions of who is \u201cwhite\u201d and who is \u201cAmerican\u201d have evolved over time.<\/p>\n

A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People<\/em> closes an enormous gap in a literature that has long focused on the nonwhite, and it forcefully reminds us that the concept of \u201crace\u201d is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed according to a long and rich history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of \u201cwhiteness\u201d\u2014an illuminating work on the history of race and power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,394,20],"tags":[9342,1231,2829,1632,1300,1186],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-nell-i-painter","tag-nell-irvin-painter","tag-nell-painter","tag-ralph-waldo-emerson","tag-w-w-norton-company","tag-whiteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59289,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/59289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}