![]() ![]() It’s more textbook than summer-read-on-the-deck, more reference read than cover-to-cover read. I can’t really summarize this book because it is so information dense. If you have questions about white people, this book probably has answers. ![]() Historian Nell Irvin Painter has clearly Done the Research necessary to present a truly detailed, monumental look at the history of whiteness as a concept, an identity, a label. Between these covers, however, is a book that is far from minimalist. ![]() So too does the cover of my edition: pure white with a black circle in the centre containing the title and author in white block letters nothing else on the front cover, blurbs pushed to the back and even to the spine. The History of White People is minimalist in this sense: the title says it all. This is a small thing, but I feel like it’s rare these days for a non-fiction book to lack a subtitle. ![]()
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