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Author	Painter, Nell Irvin.
Title	The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter.
Edition	1st ed.
Published	New York, NY : W.W. Norton, c2010.
Description	xii, 496 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Olin Library Level 3 Stacks	E184.A1 P29 2010 Browse Nearby Call Numbers	DUE 08-13-24

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Table of Contents
1	Greeks and Scythians	1
2	Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani	16
3	White Slavery	34
4	White Slavery as Beauty Ideal	43
5	The White Beauty Ideal as Science	59
6	Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Names White People "Caucasian"	72
7	Germaine de Stael's German Lessons	91
8	Early American White People Observed	104
9	The First Alien Wave	132
10	The Education of Ralph Waldo Emerson	151
11	English Traits	165
12	Emerson in the History of American White People	184
13	The American School of Anthropology	190
14	The Second Enlargement of American Whiteness	201
15	William Z. Ripley and The Races of Europe	212
16	Frank Boas, Dissenter	228
17	Roosevelt, Ross, and Race Suicide	245
18	The Discovery of Degenerate Families	256
19	From Degenerate Families to Sterilization	267
20	Intelligence Testing of New Immigrants	278
21	The Great Unrest	291
22	The Melting Pot a Failure?	301
23	Anthroposociology: The Science of Alien Races	311
24	Refuting Racial Science	327
25	A New White Race Politics	343
26	The Third Enlargement of American Whiteness	359
27	Black Nationalism and White Ethnics	374
28	The Fourth Enlargement of American Whiteness	383
	Acknowledgments	397
	Notes	401
	Illustration Credits	457
	Index	461

Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-456) and index.
Local Note	Purchased on the Mary Jane Klem Fund.
Subjects	White people -- Race identity -- United States.
	White people -- United States -- History.
Subject Keywords	United States -- Race relations.
Local Term	Mary Jane Klem Fund. donor
ISBN	9780393049343 (hardcover) :
	0393049345 (hardcover)
OCLC/Bib Util #	317919383

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