Nell Irvin Painter

Nell Irvin Painter’s ‘The History of White People’ Raises Rhetorical Questions

Nell Irvin Painter’s ‘The History of White People’ Raises Rhetorical Questions

In The History of White People, historian Nell Irvin Painter suggests that we are witnessing another enlargement of the concept of whiteness rather than a transformation of America into a post-racial society, as some, at both ends of the political spectrum, like to claim.