The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter.

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Main Author: Painter, Nell Irvin
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
White people > Race identity > United States.
White people > United States > History.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Illustration credits
  • Index.