The history of White people /
Painter, Nell Irvin.
The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2010. - 496 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-456) and index.
Introduction -- Greeks and scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Ge rmani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White be auty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people "caucasian" -- Germaine de staáel's German lessons -- Early American W hite people observed -- The first alien wave -- The education of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English traits -- Emerson in the history of American W hite people -- The American school of anthropology -- The second enlarg ement of American whiteness -- William Z. Ripley and the races of Europ e -- Franz Boas, dissenter -- Roosevelt, Ross, and race suicide -- The discovery of degenerate families -- From degenerate families to sterili zation -- 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 t hird enlargement of American whiteness -- Black nationalism and White e thnics -- The fourth great enlargement of American whiteness.
9780393049343
2009-034515
Whites--Race identity--United States.
Whites--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
305.800973
The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2010. - 496 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-456) and index.
Introduction -- Greeks and scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Ge rmani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White be auty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people "caucasian" -- Germaine de staáel's German lessons -- Early American W hite people observed -- The first alien wave -- The education of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English traits -- Emerson in the history of American W hite people -- The American school of anthropology -- The second enlarg ement of American whiteness -- William Z. Ripley and the races of Europ e -- Franz Boas, dissenter -- Roosevelt, Ross, and race suicide -- The discovery of degenerate families -- From degenerate families to sterili zation -- 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 t hird enlargement of American whiteness -- Black nationalism and White e thnics -- The fourth great enlargement of American whiteness.
9780393049343
2009-034515
Whites--Race identity--United States.
Whites--History.--United States
United States--Race relations.
305.800973