Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
W. W. Norton & Company (2011), Edition: Reprint, 512 pages
Description
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.
Call number
History / Painter
Language
ISBN
9780393339741
Awards
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nominee — Nonfiction — 2011)
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