The history of White people - Painter, Nell Irvin (New York : W.W. Norton, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-456) and index.
Keywords: Whites -- Race identity -- United States; Whites -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations