Waterstones The History of White People
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Price: £14.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of 'whiteness" for economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds us that the concept of 'race" is an all-too-human invention whose meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a long and rich history of events.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780393339741
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780393339741
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Author: Calverton Bent
Rating: 5
Review: Very happy with purchase and condition.
Author: Robert Greenland
Rating: 1
Review: I felt that this book should be rewritten under the title ‘A History Of White Things Of Interest To Nell Irvin Painter’. There’s material about slavery from before it was practiced exclusively on Africans, also about white ideas of beauty, famous white racists and the Scythians(?!). There is a strong inertia present from the writer towards her subject matter. Her distaste prevents her from getting to grips with the material, it seems to me. I would have written, for example, about how Romans and Byzantines felt about Germans and Danes, I would have written about Hernan Cortes meeting Moctezuma & the Aztecs, I’d have written about Vasco Da Gama sailing around Africa and about the Knights Templars and the Sack of Rome by Alaric’s Goths. That’s a History Of White People, right there, and I would have chapters on slavery, colonialism and the Holocaust too. Of course I would, why do you think I’d do anything else. It would be racist to ignore the racism. I tell the truth about just what white people are. My hypothesis being, that to understand white people, you should consider them as the direct ancestors of the tribes that sacked Rome. Which is what they are. Christianized, enlightened and now digitised, I’d give you straight-up Palefaces with no apology. I did think the book needs proper editing too, excuse me for saying so.
