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Nell Irvin Painter is a leading historian of the United States. She is the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University. She was Director of Princeton’s Program in African-American Studies from 1997 to 2000. In addition to her doctorate in history from Harvard University, she has received honorary doctorates from Wesleyan, Dartmouth, SUNY-New […]
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Irvin Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship and asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. She joins to discuss her legendary career as a distinguished historian, award-winning author, and artist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On this special episode of Design Matters, we look back at the collective brilliance of artists interviewed in 2024. Best of Design Matters 2024 with Es Devlin, Olafur Eliasson, Carson Ellis, and Nell Irvin Painter is live! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sojourner Truth was a women's rights advocate known best for her famous speech "Ain't I a Woman." But Truth never actually said these words. In fact, much of the Truth we know… is fiction. Depictions from different artists and journalists have tweaked Truth's legacy to fit their messages, giving her a “kaleidoscopic reputation,” according to Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. So how did a speech she never gave make Sojourner Truth one of the most famous women's suffragists of the 19th century? And what did Truth actually say? Turns out, the whole Truth is even better than fiction. Guests: Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol; Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University Ashleigh Coren, former content strategist for the Smithsonian's Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past initiative Kim Sajet, director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and host of the Smithsonian's Portraits podcast
We continue our Best Books of 2024 coverage with a special episode dedicated to NONFICTION. First, Nell Irvin Painter joins us to discuss I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays (Doubleday, April 23), one of Kirkus' Best Nonfiction Books of 2024. Kirkus: “A vibrant, insightful collection from an indispensable voice” (starred review). Then nonfiction editor John McMurtrie discusses more of the year's best nonfiction.
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, The Coin. An allegorical tale of alienation, loneliness, and repulsion, the book follows a Palestinian woman who's recently fulfilled her family's dream of moving to America. In New York, working as a middle school teacher, she finds herself disillusioned with the filth of the city and its poverty. She's beset with a deep unease at her own body and haunted by memories, especially that of a coin—a shekel—she swallowed on a car ride as a child just moments before a horrible accident. Estranged from the few people she knows in the city, her behavior becomes increasingly unhinged and bizarre in ways that complicate standard stories of immigration, and instead imagine the path of a character who sees through America's promise and realizes she has nothing to lose. Also, Nell Irvin Painter, author of I Just Keep Talking, returns to recommend three books and one magazine: The Plague Edition of Konch Magazine edited by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed's; Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs; James: a Novel by Percival Everett; and Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith.
Kate Wolf speaks with writer and journalist Yasmin Zaher about her debut novel, The Coin. An allegorical tale of alienation, loneliness, and repulsion, the book follows a Palestinian woman who's recently fulfilled her family's dream of moving to America. In New York, working as a middle school teacher, she finds herself disillusioned with the filth of the city and its poverty. She's beset with a deep unease at her own body and haunted by memories, especially that of a coin—a shekel—she swallowed on a car ride as a child just moments before a horrible accident. Estranged from the few people she knows in the city, her behavior becomes increasingly unhinged and bizarre in ways that complicate standard stories of immigration, and instead imagine the path of a character who sees through America's promise and realizes she has nothing to lose. Also, Nell Irvin Painter, author of I Just Keep Talking, returns to recommend three books and one magazine: The Plague Edition of Konch Magazine edited by Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed's; Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings edited by Michael Kelly and Monique Roelofs; James: a Novel by Percival Everett; and Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith.
Eric Newman is joined by historian Nell Irvin Painter to discuss I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, a compendium of Painter's writing about art, politics, and race across nearly four decades. The wide-ranging discussion moves from how researching Sojourner Truth inspired Painter to get her MFA in visual art, to the struggle over what can be taught and known about American history, to the ways modern information technology impacts our experience of the present and its echoes in the past, and to how we might navigate a bleak present in which fascism seems newly on the march. Also, Emily Nussbaum, author of Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV, returns to recommend Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv.
Eric Newman is joined by historian Nell Irvin Painter to discuss I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, a compendium of Painter's writing about art, politics, and race across nearly four decades. The wide-ranging discussion moves from how researching Sojourner Truth inspired Painter to get her MFA in visual art, to the struggle over what can be taught and known about American history, to the ways modern information technology impacts our experience of the present and its echoes in the past, and to how we might navigate a bleak present in which fascism seems newly on the march. Also, Emily Nussbaum, author of Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV, returns to recommend Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv.
Starting over can be daunting, even terrifying, for many older adults. But for Nell Irvin Painter, an accomplished educator turned artist, it was as simple as placing a brush on a canvas. In this episode, we explore Nell's fearless leap into the arts after a distinguished 30-year career as a professor and historian. Join us as we discuss her inspiring journey and the joy of embracing a new chapter in life.
6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.
6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.
6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.
6/5/24: DA David Sullivan: the MAGA threats & the UMass protest cases. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter: race, Sojourner Truth, & art. Brian Adams w/ John Feffer, Dir, Institute for Policy Studies: slivers of hope in the climate crisis. Bill Feinstein: immigrants living at Logan.
Historian and author Nell Irvin Painter joins Tavis to discuss “I Just Keep Talking”, a new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.
“But one thing the whole “Karen” thing did, which I think was very good, was that it pointed out the existence of spaces Ostensibly open to everyone, but not, and then patrolled often by white women saying you don't belong here. And she got a name, and people with that name wince and rightfully so, but without that wince-worthy kind of situation, I don't think large numbers of Americans would realize that there really is a sort of silent apartheid in our public spaces.” So says Nell Irvin Painter, who Henry Louis Gates Jr. refers to as “one of the towering Black intellects of the last century.” I first heard Nell on Scene On Radio with John Biewen in his series “Seeing White,” and have been biding my time for an opportunity to interview her ever since. I got my chance, with her latest endeavor, an essay collection called I Just Keep Talking, which is a collection of her writing from the past several decades, about art, politics, and race along with many pieces of her own art. Now retired, Nell is a New York Times bestseller and was the Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton, where she published many, many books about the evolution of Black political thought and race as a concept. She's one of the preeminent scholars on the life of Sojourner Truth—and is working on another book about her right now—and is also the author of The History of White People. Today's conversation touches on everything from Sojourner Truth—and how she actually never said “Ain't I a Woman?”—to the capitalization of Black and White. MORE FROM NELL IRVIN PAINTER: I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays The History of White People Old in Art School Nell's Website Follow Nell on Instagram Scene On Radio: “Seeing White” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode, meet bestselling author Chanel Miller, bestselling author Amy Tan, and historian Nell Irvin Painter. Tune in to hear how each of these writers turned their everyday experiences into extraordinary audiobooks, and what they're most excited for listeners to hear. Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Miller https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735878/magnolia-wu-unfolds-it-all-by-chanel-miller/9780593867372/ The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717452/the-backyard-bird-chronicles-by-amy-tan/9780593824726/ I Just Keep Talking by Nell Irvin Painter https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708347/i-just-keep-talking-by-nell-irvin-painter/9780593821343/
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Irvin Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship and asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. She joins to discuss her legendary career as a distinguished historian, award-winning author, and artist.
Episode No. 649 features artist Patrick Martinez and author Nell Irvin Painter. Dallas Contemporary is showing "Patrick Martinez: Histories" through September 1. The exhibition surveys work Martinez has made since 2016, including his Pee Chee folder-referencing paintings, cake paintings, neons, and his recent multi-media paintings which often feature stucco, paint, and neon. It was curated by Rafael Barrientos Martínez. Martinez is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work investigates socio-economic position, immigration, police violence, and civic and cultural loss. He's had solo shows at museums and kunsthalles such as the ICA San Francisco, the Tucson (Ariz.) Museum of Art, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Vincent Price Art Museums. He's been in recent group shows at the Riverside (Calif.) Art Museum, The Broad, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Ark., and El Museo del Barrio, New York. Painter's new book is "I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays." The book features essays on Painter's experience of art school, the construction of whiteness, and a sub-collection of essays on visual culture that addresses topics such as Alma Thomas' life and career, and the exhibition "Soul of a Nation." "I Just Keep Talking" is available from Amazon and Bookshop for $30-35. Painter's previous books include "The History of White People," "Standing at Armageddon," "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol," and "Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over." The “starting over” of the title refers to Painter's retirement after a career as a top Ivy League historian to return to college as a sixty-something student — first to take undergraduate studio art courses at Rutgers, then to pursue an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Instagram: Patrick Martinez, Nell Irvin Painter, Tyler Green.
The facts of Sojourner Truth's life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s through the late 1870s with her candid and powerful voice, not to mention her singing. Tall and strong, Truth was physically formidable, too. No one was using the term “intersectionality” in the 19th century, but Truth embodied this idea, declaring that her Blackness and her womanhood were equally essential facets of her identity. But many people, both in Truth's lifetime and in the approximately 140 years since her death, have found it useful to recast Truth as they wish to remember her instead of as she was. There's no better example of this than “Ain't I a woman?,” the hypothetical that Truth supposedly put to the audience when she addressed a women's rights convention in 1851 in Akron, Ohio—the city where a public plaza will be dedicated in her honor this spring. There's reason to doubt she said that, or at least that she said it in that way. In this episode, we speak with two historians who've dug into Truth's complicated legacy and challenged much of what's been written about this American icon. Cynthia Greenlee reported on recent efforts to honor Truth for the March 2024 issue of Smithsonian. Nell Irvin Painter wrote the groundbreaking 1996 biography Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, and she's hard at work on a follow-up volume titled Sojourner Truth Was a New Yorker and She Didn't Say That. Together, Greenlee and Painter help us understand us who Sojourner Truth really was, and why several generations of activists have claimed her as a symbol — at the expense of our understanding of her as a person. Read Cynthia Greenlee's March 2024 Smithsonian story about Sojourner Truth here. You can learn more about Dr. Greenlee and her work at her site. You can learn more about Dr. Nell Irvin Painter's work as an author, artist, and historian at her site. And read more here for the history of Mar-a-Lago mentioned in our dinner party fact. Find prior episodes of our show here. There's More to That is a production of Smithsonian magazine and PRX Productions. From the magazine, our team is Chris Klimek, Debra Rosenberg and Brian Wolly. From PRX, our team is Jessica Miller, Adriana Rosas Rivera, Genevieve Sponsler, Rye Dorsey, and Edwin Ochoa. The Executive Producer of PRX Productions is Jocelyn Gonzales. Fact-checking by Stephanie Abramson. Episode artwork by Emily Lankiewicz. Music by APM Music.
Professor Painter discusses her book, THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE. Prof. Painter begins with discussing just what it means to be “white” and how ideas of whiteness developed using Ancient Greek and Roman sources. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s influence is explored before delving into eugenics, anti-Semitism, and Irish Immigration. Nell Irvin Painter is the award-winning author […]
Professor Painter discusses her book, THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE. Prof. Painter begins with discussing just what it means to be “white” and how ideas […]
Politicians around the world use nationalism. They use it to win elections, and to stoke fear, and to gain and hold on to power. This kind of nationalism is exclusive, often based on ethnicity, race or religion. But is there another way? This series will look at nationalism in its different forms around the world, and alternative approaches to creating a sense of nationhood. Can these divisive politics be countered by building a civic, liberal nationalism? In this fourth and final episode, Emily Tamkin looks at nationalism in the United States. First, Ishaan Tharoor, columnist on the foreign desk at the Washington Post, talks about how he understands American nationalism, and where it sits on the worldwide spectrum of nationalist politics. Then, Nell Irvin Painter, American historian, explains why she's thinking about the local and the global, not the national. Read more:Emily asks is this America's last real election? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's episode is an edition of my new podcast, https://aideas.captivate.fm/ (AIdeas). Oscar Wilde imagined an anarchist utopia without drudgery and without slavery. How did he propose to accomplish this? Automation. Here's the article about American slavery that I mentioned by Nell Irvin Painter: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/slavery-in-america-1619-first-ships-jamestown (How We Think About the Term "Enlsaved" Matters) Subscribe to https://aideas.captivate.fm/ (AIdeas) for more!
Ep 56: The history of white people - New York Times bestselling author of “The history of white people” Prof Nell Irvin Painter is a leading American historian and visual artist. She is the author of several books including 'Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol and American Whiteness Since Trump', 2020. She joins me to talk about 'The history of white people', the complexities of terminology and what history can teach us about the present. [Recorded in 2021]
Princeton AAS Podcast S2 E07 A Painter's Eye In this episode, we sit down with the legendary historian and artist Nell Painter to discuss her career and its connections to Black Studies. From reckoning with historical figures as individuals, to her life and work at Princeton, to her own works-in-progress, this podcast has something for everyone. Our hosts dive deep into Painter's legacy and the lessons she has for our present moment. The Culture of __ “This new and 'old' artist offers a self-portrait in starting over,” PBS NewsHour, July 23, 2018 “Nell Painter: Old In Art School,” GBH Forum Network, July 31, 2018 The Breakdown - Guest Info Nell Irvin Painter (nellpainter.com) Nell Irvin Painter is Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita at Princeton University. She was Director of Princeton's Program in African-American Studies from 1997 to 2000. In addition to her doctorate in history from Harvard University, she has received honorary doctorates from Wesleyan, Dartmouth, SUNY-New Paltz, and Yale. Prof. Painter has published numerous books, articles, reviews, and other essays, including The History of White People. She has served on numerous editorial boards and as an officer of many different professional organizations, including the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Antiquarian Society, the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and the Association of Black Women Historians. Nell Painter (the painter formerly known as the historian Nell Irvin Painter) lives and works in Newark, New Jersey. Her work carries discursive as well as visual meaning, and is made in a manual and digital process. Using found images and digital manipulation, she reconfigures the past and self-revision through self-portraits. After a life of historical truth and political engagement with American society, her artwork represents freedom, including the freedom to be totally self-centered. See, Hear, Do “The Extraordinary Women of AAS Featuring Nell Painter,” Princeton University Department of African American Studies, March 28, 2022 Nell Irvin Painter, Southern History Across the Color Line (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021 [2002]) Nell Painter, “American Whiteness Since Trump,” James Fuentes Gallery, 2020 “Nell Painter and Black Power in Print,” Museum of Fine Arts Boston, November 15, 2021 “Nell Irvin Painter to Deliver the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture,” American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting, Friday, April 29, 2022 @ 6:00 PM EST (registration in link)
On this weeks episode, Cortney Wills sits down with Director, Sacha Jenkins to discuss his latest project “Everything’s Gonna be All White.” The 3-part docuseries that debuted on Showtime on February 11 pulls no punches while diving into the history of racism in this country. The provocative project features insights from Jemele Hill, Tamika Mallory, Amanda Seales, and Nell Irvin Painter as well as hip hop veterans from Roxanne Shante to Havoc to Styles P among others who all help to paint a picture that some folks just don’t want to see. Find out how Jenkins feels about the backlash and what he hopes audiences will take away.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The first Black woman in America to attain national fame for protesting, the formerly enslaved and self-named Sojourner Truth advocated for the abolition of slavery, women's voting rights, prison reform and the end of capital punishment across the entire United States. New York governor Kathy Hochul just announced a new state park in Ulster County will be named Sojourner Truth State Park and open later this year.Sojourner Truth sources: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter,My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth by Ann Turner and James Ransome. The Sojourner Truth Projecthttps://goodblacknews.org/2019/02/01/bhm-aint-i-a-woman-the-life-and-legacy-of-abolitionist-and-activist-sojourner-truth/https://www.biography.com/video/sojourner-truth-mini-biography-11191875531https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truthhttps://www.dailyfreeman.com/2022/02/28/new-state-park-in-kingston-town-of-ulster-named-after-sojourner-truth/https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htmIf you like GBN's Daily Drops, please follow on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and leave a positive rating or review, share favorite episodes on social media, or go old school and tell a friend.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.
In conversation with Nell Irvin Painter Barbara Chase-Riboud's watershed 1979 novel Sally Hemings told a fictionalized story based on the true account of the life of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman with whom Thomas Jefferson had children. It was the winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best novel by an woman writer in the United States and through DNA evidence, the novel's premise about Heming and Jefferson's relationship has since been proven true. Chase-Riboud's other novels include Echo of Lions, The President's Daughter, and Hottentot Venus. She is also a celebrated poet and widely exhibited sculptor and visual artist. In the spirit of Sally Hemings, her new novel breathes life into the previously enigmatic Hannah Elias, one of early 1900s America's richest black women, and the murder that precipitated her rapid downfall. Historian Nell Irvin Painter's books include Sojourner Truth, Creating Black Americans, and the bestseller The History of White People. The Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University, Painter directed that institution's Program in African American Studies from 1997 to 2000. She has also published numerous essays, reviews, and articles, and is the author of the memoir Old in Art School. (recorded 2/15/2022)
Tonight on the Last Word: The U.S. deploys 3,000 troops to eastern Europe to bolster allies amid the Ukraine crisis. Also, Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark met with the Jan. 6 Select Committee. Plus, Rep. Ro Khanna says democratic values should guide tech development. And New York archives finds documents of Sojourner Truth's 1828 lawsuit against a white man to free her son from slavery. Ron Klain, Rep. Adam Schiff and Nell Irvin Painter also join Lawrence O'Donnell.
Presentations on Thomas's studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by Steven Nelson Renee Maurer, associate curator, The Phillips Collection, and coordinating curator for Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Nell Irvin Painter, artist, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita, Princeton University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor; and Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, Dean's Faculty Fellow (2019–2021), Mellon Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (2020–2021), Vanderbilt University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor. Moderated by Steven Nelson, dean, the Center (Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven't subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
Presentations on Thomas's studio art training and involvement with galleries, museums, and universities by Renee Maurer, Nell Irvin Painter, and Rebecca VanDiver, followed with discussion moderated by Steven Nelson Renee Maurer, associate curator, The Phillips Collection, and coordinating curator for Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Nell Irvin Painter, artist, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita, Princeton University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor; and Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, Dean's Faculty Fellow (2019–2021), Mellon Faculty Fellow in Digital Humanities (2020–2021), Vanderbilt University, and Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful catalog contributor. Moderated by Steven Nelson, dean, the Center (Center for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts), National Gallery of Art. Celebrate Alma W. Thomas's Legacy: https://www.nga.gov/learn/adults/john-wilmerding-symposium-community-celebration-alma-thomas.html Still haven't subscribed to our YouTube channels? National Gallery of Art ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtUS National Gallery of Art | Talks ►►https://www.youtube.com/NationalGalleryofArtTalks
We know the name Susan B. Anthony (hopefully), but she was not alone in the fight for women's rights and specifically, the right for women to vote. In this Bitchstory lesson, we discuss some of the badass women who laid it all on the line in the name of equality. We specifically focus on Sojourner Truth, and there is a lot to unpack just in her story. But we also touch on some other great women and their contributions to women's equality. "At a time when most Americans thought of slaves as male and women as white, Truth embodied a fact that still bears repeating: Among the blacks are women; among the women, there are blacks." - Nell Irvin Painter, regarding Sojourner Truth Bonus info in this episode: did you know that Abe Lincoln attended a seance...in the Whitehouse? Sources for this episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2015/08/14/antebellum-spiritualism-and-the-civil-war/ https://www.shondaland.com/live/a23652668/legacy-of-spiritualists/ https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room https://www.nysut.org/resources/special-resources-sites/womens-committee/womens-history-2020/unsung-heroines-of-womens-suffrage --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitchstory/support
Whiteness in America isn't just the neutral norm against which racial minorities, particularly Black people, are measured. Whiteness in America means having the privilege and power that go along with being part of that supposed norm. And becoming white – not in terms of pigment but of social status – is a choice that nearly every immigrant or refugee group in America has had to embrace or reject. We talk with two scholars in the field of Whiteness Studies, Nell Irvin Painter and Eric Goldstein, about how understanding the construction of white identity in this polyglot country gives us keen insights into its troubled racial history. MUSIC CREDITS Turning to You by Blue Dot Sessions Our Only Lark by Blue Dot Sessions Heather by Blue Dot Sessions A Certain Lightness by Blue Dot Sessions The Crisper by Blue Dot Sessions Throughput by Blue Dot Sessions Pukae by Blue Dot Sessions Four and Fourteen by Blue Dot Sessions The Longshoreman by Blue Dot Sessions Ewa Valley by Blue Dot Sessions Careless Morning by Blue Dot Sessions Morning Glare by Blue Dot Sessions Lick Stick by Blue Dot Sessions
This week I talk about how it's ok to be bad at things & how my neurodivergence effects my creative process. I also discuss parental trauma and racial trauma, through the lens of the books Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, by Lindsay C. Gibson, and The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. In this week's Society Slants, Lucius Jones finally delivers on his promise to tell us all about Geraldine Mitchell's "gay little breakfast affair."Fine me elsewhere at:WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1B803QV1LJFXJ?refETSY: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheWoodmother?TIKTOK: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeNsmHPP/PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheWoodmotheINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thewoodmother/?hl=enYOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/c/TheWoodmother
Thursday night, historian, author and artist, Nell Irvin Painter, will participate in a discussion hosted by the Central Arkansas Library System. The virtual conversation will begin at 6:30 p.m. and can be viewed by patrons anywhere. Irvin Painter is notable for her works on Southern history of the nineteenth century.
For months, the domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol was planned in plain sight on social media. So why weren’t we ready for it? This week, former FBI special agent Michael German explains why the bureau deprioritized the threat posed by white supremacists… and why the Department of Homeland Security says they pose “the most persistent and lethal threat to the homeland.” Then, historian Nell Irvin Painter breaks down how a legacy of racism in the United States brought us to this moment. Can we change our trajectory? She argues that the Black Lives Matter Movement of 2020 could bring lasting, positive change to this country. Guests: Nell Irvin Painter, American historian, artist, author of numerous books including The History of White People and Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University Michael German, Brennan Center for Justice at NYC Law School, former FBI agent and author of Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.
Here's our conversation with the American historian Nell Irvin Painter.
Robert and Kellie dive into the local impact of the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron's announcement of the grand jury decision in the murder of Breonna Taylor. Kellie shares her personal and professional perspectives on civil service, violence, and community activism. Kellie R. Watson was the first Chief Equity Officer for Louisville Metro Government, providing strategic, visionary planning and oversight to advance racial equity in Louisville Metro Government and she oversees the Department of Human Resources and the Human Relations Commission. Prior to this, she was the General Counsel/Legislative Liaison to Mayor Fischer. She was also the Director of the Human Resources Department/Labor Relations within the Fischer administration. Kellie has served as the Director for Office of Human Resource Management/Acting Director of the Office of Civil Rights and Small Business for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. Kellie’s early years in City of Louisville, were as the Director of the Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission for several years, as the Director of the Office of Affirmative Action. Kellie is a member of the Kentucky and Louisville Bar Associations; Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. serving as the Executive Board Chair of Beta Alpha Xi Zeta Chapter; Legislative Liaison for Derby City Chapter of Jack and Jill Inc.
In “The History of White People,” Nell Irvin Painter writes that America “is a society founded in the era that invented the very idea of race.” Professor Painter formerly led Princeton's Program in African-American Studies. We read her bestseller for “Turn The Page with Colorado Matters.” Historian Adrian E.
The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 3rd study session on Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 offering, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Wilkerson received a 2015 National Humanities Award from former President Barack Obama and garnered widespread acclaim for her 2010 publication, The Warmth of Other Suns. Caste examines different regions of the world where groups of individuals are mistreated because they are not White. Wilkerson explores Nazi Germany, India and the United States. Even though Gus lodged her first book in his top 10, he is not excited about this book. Unfortunately, a listener alerted Gus that Ms. Wilkerson was married to a White Man, Brett Hamilton. In fact, her #TragicArragment apparently becomes a part of the text we're reading. During last week's session, the metaphors continued. Wilkerson insists that mistreatment based on skin color is "arbitrary." She cites a number of C.O.W.S.'s guests in the references (Ariela Gross, Nell Irvin Painter, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Noel Ignatiev). Wilkerson spends a a sizable amount of time describing how Whites detest the use of term "Racism" and how this concept is not the same as "caste." However, a number of readers were still confused as to how she differentiates the two. #WhitePower INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
In “The History of White People,” Nell Irvin Painter writes that America “is a society founded in the era that invented the very idea of race.” Professor Painter formerly led Princeton’s Program in African-American Studies. We read her bestseller for “Turn The Page with Colorado Matters.” Historian Adrian E.
Thursday, September 24th 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 3rd study session on Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 offering, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Wilkerson received a 2015 National Humanities Award from former President Barack Obama and garnered widespread acclaim for her 2010 publication, The Warmth of Other Suns. Caste examines different regions of the world where groups of individuals are mistreated because they are not White. Wilkerson explores Nazi Germany, India and the United States. Even though Gus lodged her first book in his top 10, he is not excited about this book. Unfortunately, a listener alerted Gus that Ms. Wilkerson was married to a White Man, Brett Hamilton. In fact, her #TragicArragment apparently becomes a part of the text we're reading. During last week's session, the metaphors continued. Wilkerson insists that mistreatment based on skin color is "arbitrary." She cites a number of C.O.W.S.'s guests in the references (Ariela Gross, Nell Irvin Painter, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Noel Ignatiev). Wilkerson spends a a sizable amount of time describing how Whites detest the use of term "Racism" and how this concept is not the same as "caste." However, a number of readers were still confused as to how she differentiates the two. #WhitePower INVEST in The COWS – paypal.me/TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Cash App: http://Cash.App/$TheCOWS The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. TUNE IN! Phone: 1-720-716-7300 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue
It’s been three months since George Floyd was killed by a white police officer in Minnesota. The movement prompted an outpouring from lawmakers in Canada and Australia, and protests started in countries that share the United States’ colonial history. Now that the protests have started to slow down, how do we enact effective policies? The Black Lives Matter movement is calling to redirect police funding toward education and public services. Ideas that once seemed radical are now being discussed by politicians both on the local and federal levels. Historian Nell Irvin Painter and anthropologist Christen Smith join Ray Suarez to talk about the global Black Lives Matter movement, policing in the Western Hemisphere and why it’s important to understand the role white supremacy has played in building our institutions. Nell Irvin Painter, American historian, artist, author of numerous books including The History of White People and Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University Christen Smith, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, founder of Cite Black Women and author of Afro Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.
The outrage of the last two weeks has made it clear that we are at a moment of national reckoning. The Black Lives Matter movement is calling to abolish the police and redirect police funding toward education and public services. Ideas that once seemed radical are now being discussed by politicians both on the local and federal level. On this week’s episode, historian Nell Irvin Painter and anthropologist Christen Smith join Ray Suarez to talk about the global Black Lives Matter movement, policing in the Western Hemisphere and why it’s important to understand the role white supremacy has played in building our institutions. If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.
in this episode we talk with incredible activist and friend SASHA and try to do an introductory episode on ending white silence. reading group through our patreon is starting next week. be there! Resources listed from the episode: Racecraft, by Barbara and Karen Fields “A History of White People” by Nell Irvin Painter. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Beyond Survival edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi The end of policing by alex vitale -- NOW FREE EBOOK ON VERSO Are prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis -- runner up angela davis is “policing the black man” From #blacklivesmatter to black liberation by keeanga-yamahtta taylor The Possessive Investment In Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz anything ruth wilson gilmore anything audre lorde theme music as always by brandon payton carrillo
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Follow Vange on Instagram and Twitter @houseofvange and visit www.evangelinespracklin.comThe book we talked about was I Am A Bunny by Ole Risom and Illustrated by Richard Scarry. Other books mentioned were Becoming by Michelle Obama, Old in Art School by Nell Irvin Painter, Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, and The Passion Planner designed by Angelia Trinidad. The YouTube channel mentioned was youtube.com/carrierad
Whiteness, as an idea and as an identity, is not as fixed as many people believe. Over the centuries, Western societies have defined and redefined it. But always, it has served to delineate who gets access to rights and privileges, and who doesn't. In this episode, we meet an Italian American family as they reflect on a time when they weren't yet white in America, and consider how that changed. And we explore the role white identity politics have always played in American elections. We hear from: - Chris Arnade, author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America - Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People - Joshua Freeman, Distinguished Professor of History at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies and author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World - Fred Gardaphe, Distinguished Professor of Italian American Studies at Queens College Hosted by Kai Wright. Produced by Joseph Capriglione.
Do you know where the term "Caucasian" comes from? Or that true "Caucasians" are considered to be "Black" in Russia? Did you know that the term "white" was once subdivided into many different races of whiteness? To understand more about America's complex and ever-changing relationship with Whiteness, I sit down with the author of "The History of White People", and esteemed Professor Emerita from Princeton University, Nell Irvin Painter.
Rencontre avec Nell Irvin Painter pour son "Histoire des Blancs"Nell Irvin Painter est historienne, écrivaine, artiste peintre, ancienne présidente de l'association des historiens américains et longtemps professeure à l'université de Princetown. Son livre Histoire des Blancs est un monument ! “Une histoire intellectuelle de la race blanche pour un large public.” - The New York Times.“La blancheur a été construite pendant des siècles sur la base de la tromperie et des impératifs politiques déguisés.” - The New Yorker.Comment s’est construite la notion de race blanche ? Dans cette interview avec Nell Irvin Painter, lors de son passage à Paris, nous avons discuté de cette passionnante Histoire des Blancs, parue aux Etats-Unis en 2010 et récemment publiée en France.Nous y évoquons l’origine de cette aventure exceptionnelle qui a duré dix ans, les recherches en Allemagne à Göttingen, les véritables enquêtes pour remonter jusqu’à l’antiquité lorsque cette couleur "blanche" a commencé à être idéalisée, les esclaves Blancs en Europe dont la beauté - plus ou moins phantasmée - marque les imaginaires, la façon dont Nell Irvin Painter a réussi à retracer la construction et l’évolution de ce concept de race supérieure, comment son nées "les" races blanches et leur hiérarchie, la "traversée de l’Atlantique" de ces idées et comment les Américains se les sont appropriées de façon extrême, avec des conséquences sur des millions de gens (et pas que sur les Noirs), la montée en puissance de la vénération d’une race "pure", blanche, aryenne aux Etats-Unis jusqu’à ce que le nazisme en Allemagne effraie un peu les adeptes de ces théories au XXème siècle, les révélations surprenantes de ce livre - et choquantes ! - sur Ralph Waldo Emerson - révélations reconnues aujourd’hui par la société Emerson qui réunit les spécialistes de l’auteur - le rôle des "influenceurs" tout au long de cette histoire qui n’a cessé d’évoluer et bien d’autres choses, le tout avec une bonne dose d’humour !Voir la page du Podcast sur So Sweet PlanetSite officiel de Nell Irvin Painter Histoire des Blancs, Max Milo éditions, 432 pagesCommander le livre Histoire des Blancs sur le site des éditions Max MiloUne interview réalisée par Anne Greffe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Christina & Deidra catch-up on the 'Scene On Radio' series 'Seeing White' (annotated below). We get into why the theme is so important to our mission, our vision -- our lives. Deidra shares her WOKEST of perspectives and Christina co-signs the MOVEMENT. Join us for our second episode and dive into the discussion. We talk how race was made, the invention of slavery, and that trifling a** dude Jefferson. . Listening on Anchor? leave us a message, words of encouragement, questions, or any themes that came up for you during the episode. We would love to hear from you. Want to follow along the Seeing White, Scene on Radio discussion? Pull up to the show notes below. . . Need some comic relief afterwards- Follow us on the gram @bagelsandplantains Seeing White - Episode 31 - Turning the Lense (part 1) See White - Episode 32 - How Race was Made (part 2) Seeing White - Episode 33 - Made in America (part 3) Seeing White - Episode 34 - On Crazy We Built A Nation (part 4) Books & Resources to get into: Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning The Racial Equity Institute Episode 44 - White Affirmative Action --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bagelsandplantains/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bagelsandplantains/support
Då Nell Irvin Painter gjekk av med som pensjon som historieprofessor på Princeton, byrja ho studere kunst. Denne erfaringa; å vere ei kvinne med eit langt liv bak seg midt i eit miljø av unge kreative, har ho skrive om i boka Old in Art School. Også Jan Grue har skildra korleis det er å vere nesten – men berre nesten – akkurat som alle andre. I Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres skriv han om å vere akademikar, forfattar og rullestolbrukar. Dei to møtest til ein samtale om kropp, kunst og identitet. Samtalen blir leia av professor emeritus i litteraturvitskap, Per Buvik.
Nell Irvin Painter started studying art after retiring as professor of history at Princeton. She has written about the experience of being a woman with a long life behind her in the midst of a group of creative young people in her book Old in Art School. Jan Grue has also described what it is like to be almost – but only almost – like everyone else. In Jeg lever et liv som ligner deres, he writes about being an academic, an author, and a wheelchair user. The two meet for a conversation on body, art and identity, moderated by Per Buvik, professor emeritus in comparative literature.
Omgrepet «rase» handlar ikkje berre om biologi, men også om klasse, kjønn og skjønnheitsideal, meiner den amerikanske historikaren Nell Irvin Painter. Med boka The History of White People, som blei ein bestseljar i USA då den kom ut, undersøker ho korleis raseomgrepet blei danna, og spør kva som gjer at nokon kan eller ikkje kan bli definert som «kvit». Forfattar Kristina Leganger Iversen har forska på omgrepet kvitheit i skandinavisk litteratur. Ho intervjuar Painter om kva det eigentleg vil seie å vere kvit. Etter samtalen blir det opna for spørsmål frå salen. Samtalen vil vere på engelsk.
The term “race” extends beyond biology to embrace class, gender and ideals of beauty, claims American historian Nell Irvin Painter. Her book The History of White People, which became a best-seller in the USA, explores how the race concept became established and asked what leads to a person being defined as “white” or “non-white”. Author Kristina Leganger Iversen has researched the idea of “white” in Scandinavian literature. She interviews Painter about what it actually means to be white. After their conversation, questions will be invited from the audience.
The Context of White Supremacy hosts our fourth study session on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl. This celebrated slave narrative was referenced in the previous two books of study - Pamela Evans Harris's Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act and Dr. Tommy J. Curry's The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The heinous details of torture and rape reveal truth about white culture and slavery in this part of the world. Jacobs's narrative is further evidence of the sexual terrorism that has remained a primary component of White conduct. The text was published in 1861 - coinciding with the start of the Civil War. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, a former C.O.W.S. guest, wrote the introduction for the 2000 Penguin edition. Last week's broadcast contained a segment where Jacob's used a metaphor comparing herself to the White literary icon Robinson Crusoe. Gus asked University of Texas Austin literary scholar Dr. Martin Kevorkian if there was anything suspicious about this reference. He said that it's possible Jacobs read or was familiar with the swashbuckling legend of Crusoe. However, he did say that there have been years of speculation about the authenticity and/or Racist influence on Jacob's autobiography. He referenced Albert H. Tricomi's "Harriet Jacob's Autobiography and the Voice of Lydia Maria Child." Once again, a White Woman "benefactor" is suspected of adding to, subtracting from, or otherwise editing black literary content in support of White Supremacy. One charge is that Child's deliberately excised Jacob's chapter on John Brown and his 1859 terrorist attack on Virginia's Harpers Ferry. #RacismIsSlavery INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
The Context of White Supremacy hosts our fourth study session on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl. This celebrated slave narrative was referenced in the previous two books of study - Pamela Evans Harris's Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act and Dr. Tommy J. Curry's The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The heinous details of torture and rape reveal truth about white culture and slavery in this part of the world. Jacobs's narrative is further evidence of the sexual terrorism that has remained a primary component of White conduct. The text was published in 1861 - coinciding with the start of the Civil War. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, a former C.O.W.S. guest, wrote the introduction for the 2000 Penguin edition. Last week's broadcast contained a segment where Jacob's used a metaphor comparing herself to the White literary icon Robinson Crusoe. Gus asked University of Texas Austin literary scholar Dr. Martin Kevorkian if there was anything suspicious about this reference. He said that it's possible Jacobs read or was familiar with the swashbuckling legend of Crusoe. However, he did say that there have been years of speculation about the authenticity and/or Racist influence on Jacob's autobiography. He referenced Albert H. Tricomi's "Harriet Jacob's Autobiography and the Voice of Lydia Maria Child." Once again, a White Woman "benefactor" is suspected of adding to, subtracting from, or otherwise editing black literary content in support of White Supremacy. One charge is that Child's deliberately excised Jacob's chapter on John Brown and his 1859 terrorist attack on Virginia's Harpers Ferry. #RacismIsSlavery INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
The Context of White Supremacy hosts our third study session on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl. This celebrated slave narrative was referenced in the previous two books of study - Pamela Evans Harris's Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act and Dr. Tommy J. Curry's The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The heinous details of torture and rape reveal truth about white culture and slavery in this part of the world. Jacobs's narrative is further evidence of the sexual terrorism that has remained a primary component of White conduct. The text was published in 1861 - coinciding with the start of the Civil War. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, a former C.O.W.S. guest, wrote the introduction for the 2000 Penguin edition. Last week's session examined the White response to the counter-violence assault of Nat Turner. Jacobs recounts mobs of drunken White brutes killing, stealing, and terrorizing black people at will. The sexual exploitation of black was relentless. Her White owner maimed her once he discovered she had become pregnant by another White man. Her vindictive enslaver refused to sell her, and vowed to make her understand that she was nigger, property. Last week's session also details how Whites skillfully employed the Religion of White Supremacy to "season" slaves to accept White authority. #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
The Context of White Supremacy hosts our second study session on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl. This seminal slave narrative was referenced in the preceding two books of study - Pamela Evans Harris's Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act and Dr. Tommy J. Curry's The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The grizzly details of torture, rape and White torture paint a picture of slavery in this part of the world. Jacobs's narrative provides another illustration of the sexual terrorism that has remained a primary component of White culture. The text was published in 1861 - coinciding with the start of the Civil War. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, a former C.O.W.S. guest, wrote the introduction for the 2000 Penguin edition. The first week's installment detailed Jacob's childhood, where she acknowledged that she was largely protected from the cruelties of slavery. Unfortunately, her parents's deaths shattered in prevention of safety and exposed her to naked White aggression. Listeners noted that much of the White violence was censored with vague descriptions. Gus noted that a high number of White slave owners are regularly characterized as "kind." #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
The Context of White Supremacy hosts our debut study session on Harriet Jacobs's Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl. This seminal slave narrative was referenced in the preceding two books of study - Pamela Evans Harris's Black Love Is A Revolutionary Act and Dr. Tommy J. Curry's The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The grizzly details of torture, rape and White cruelty paint a picture of slavery in this part of the world. Jacobs's narrative provides another illustration of the sexual terrorism that has remained a primary component of White culture. The text was published in 1861 - coinciding with the start of the Civil War. Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, a former C.O.W.S. guest, wrote the introduction for the 2000 Penguin edition. #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 605.313.5164 CODE 564943#
Nell Irvin Painter, a Princeton professor emerita of history, was 67 years old when she enrolled as an MFA student at the Rhode Island School of Design. During her second year there her book The History of White People was released and would become a New York Times bestseller. It was disorienting event, as she describes it. On one hand, there was the elation of receiving laudatory reviews, and on the other, the ever-present, stinging criticisms she experienced in art school, which she calls “one long tearing down.” Her latest book, Old in Art School, describes her late-in-life journey from preeminent historian to painter.
In this episode of Stepping Into Truth artist and historian Nell Irvin Painter and I talk about race, age, art and what it was like to go from being a history professor at Princeton to an art student as a self described, "old woman".
Celebrated historian Nell Irvin Painter's many books include Sojourner Truth, Creating Black Americans, and, most recently, The History of White People, a national bestseller examining the dangerous socially constructed notion of whiteness. The Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University, Painter directed that institution's Program in African American Studies from 1997 to 2000 and has served on a number of editorial boards and professional groups, including the Society of American Historians, the Association of Black Women Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. Old in Art School is a memoir of Painter's surprising decision to return to the academy as a student in her sixties to earn a BFA and MFA in painting. Watch the video here. (recorded 5/22/2018)
In this episode, the first in a series, we turn to historic passions: the strong and sometimes obsessive pull of curiosity about the past. Over the next few months, we'll be speaking to people who have made that curiosity their life's work - within the historical profession or beyond. Nell Irvin Painter is uniquely qualified to reflect on the possibilities beyond professional history. After an esteemed career as an historian of race and identity, she retired from her professorship at Princeton and, at age 64, enrolled at art school. Over the last decade she has reinvented herself as a visual artist, her work now held in collections across the US. We talk to her about history, art, imagination, politics, and the limits and possibilities of historical truth. (Photo credit: John Emerson)
In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 3 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age. In this episode, we look at some of the people and organizations that took on the problems that arose in the Gilded Age. In the case of the former, we examine reformers like Henry George and Mary Elizabeth Lease. And in the latter, we tell the story of the Knights of Labor and the People’s Party. Taken together, these people and organizations pushed the nation to rethink its commitment to small and decentralized government, arguing that to let big business and banks operate with no regulations would lead to the disintegration of American democracy. This three-part series on the Gilded Age should remind us that all the things Americans value in their nation – all the rights, laws, norms, and liberties that we would never want to live without – have come from struggle. None of them fell from the sky. Rather, they’ve always come from the hard work, sacrifice, and vision of people who worked against the odds to push the nation to live up to its high ideals. Among the many things discussed in this episode: How did reformers in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era push the nation to redefine its understanding of the role of government vis-a-vis liberty? Who was Henry George and why did he wield such influence in the Gilded Age? How America has two competing traditions, individualism and the common good. What was the Knights of Labor and what did its members want? What was the extraordinary Henry George campaign for Mayor of NYC in 1886 about? What was the People’s Party insurgency of the 1890s? How did Gilded Age activists set the table for Progressive Era reformers? Recommended reading: Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001) Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 (2006) Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) Edward T. O’Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (2015) Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era (1987) Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford, 2017) Related ITPL Podcast Episodes: Episode 44 with Richard White on the Gilded Age and Reconstruction http://inthepastlane.com/episode-044/ Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) Blue Dot Sessions, “Sage the Hunter” (Free Music Archive) Jon Luc Hefferman, “Winter Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Associate Producer: Tyler Ferolito Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © In The Past Lane, 2018
In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we present Part 2 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age. In this episode, we take a hard look at the dark side of the Gilded Age – all the troubling trends that challenged the ebullient celebration of progress in the late 19th century. We’ll start by talking about the broad fear that the US was becoming Europeanized – not ethnically, but rather politically and socially. If the great fear in the 20th century was that America might descend into communism, the 19th century equivalent was that America would regress towards Europeanism – that is, become a society dominated by an entrenched aristocracy, fixed social classes, stifled opportunity, and incessant social unrest. Then we’ll examine the key trends that stoked this fear of creeping Europeanization – the rise of powerful corporations, the extraordinary and undemocratic political power wielded by industrialists, the sense among workers and farmers that upward mobility was diminishing due to manipulation of the economy by big business, the troubling arrogance of “robber baron” industrialists, and the soaring incidence of labor-capital conflict. Among the many things discussed in this episode: What troubling trends in the Gilded Age challenged the notion that it was an era of progress? What was different about the modern corporations that emerged in the Gilded Age. Why some Americans have always feared monopoly power. Why did many Americans in the Gilded Age fear the US was regressing towards a European-style society of inequality, aristocracy, and stifled opportunity? How and why the wealthy of the Gilded Age adopted the opulent lifestyles of European aristocrats. Why many Americans in the Gilded Age were concerned about the soaring number of labor strikes. Why American workers and farmers in the Gilded Age believed that big business was stifling their opportunities for success and upward mobility. How Gilded Age Americans came to fear the undemocratic political power of Big Business. Recommended reading: Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001) Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 (2006) Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) Edward T. O’Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (2015) Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era (1987) Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford, 2017) Recommended Viewing: PBS's American Experience documentary, "The Gilded Age" Related ITPL Podcast Episodes: Episode 052 What Was the Gilded Age? Part 1 http://inthepastlane.com/episode-052/ Episode 044 with Richard White on the Gilded Age and Reconstruction http://inthepastlane.com/episode-044/ Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) Jon Luc Hefferman, “Winter Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © In The Past Lane, 2018
In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, we begin a multi-episode look at that fascinating period known as the Gilded Age. This seemed a good time to do it because PBS just aired its new documentary called The Gilded Age. I was lucky enough to be one of the featured historians. The premiere on Feb 6 drew a big audience and rave reviews. And it’s not too difficult to see why: there are so many parallels between the Gilded Age (1870-1900) and the era in which we now live. The nation then and now was consumed with intense debates over wealth inequality, labor unions, immigration, terrorism, women’s rights, family values, money in politics, voter disenfranchisement, Wall Street recklessness, political polarization and paralysis, religion vs. secularism, individualism vs. the common good, free market capitalism vs. regulation and wars of choice vs. diplomacy. Many people these days want to know: are we living in a second Gilded Age? Well, the best way to find out is to learn more about the first Gilded Age. So let’s do it. Among the many things discussed in this episode: What was the Gilded Age? What were the positive aspects of the Gilded Age that led many Americans see it as an age of progress? What were the negative aspects of the Gilded Age that promoted many Americans to worry about the future of the republic? Are we in 2018 living in a second Gilded Age? Recommended reading: Sven Beckert, The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896 (2001) Rebecca Edwards, New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 (2006) Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) Edward T. O’Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (2015) Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era (1987) Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford, 2017) Related ITPL Podcast Episodes: Episode 44 with Richard White on the Gilded Age and Reconstruction http://inthepastlane.com/episode-044/ Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) Lee Rosevere, “Going Home” (Free Music Archive) Jon Luc Hefferman, “Winter Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © In The Past Lane, 2018
Dr. Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University history professor, joins host Jenna Flanagan for a conversation about the social construction of race and her book “A History of White People.” Dr. Painter explains how the notion of race evolves with time and outlines her position on current racial frustration in the United States. MetroFocus airs 7 nights a week on the tri-state region's local PBS stations THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJTV. Get the full schedule here: metrofocus.org/tv-schedule/ Get more stories like this at metrofocus.org Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/MetroFocus/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/metrofocus Join the conversation with #MetroFocus
In The Past Lane - The Podcast About History and Why It Matters
This week at ITPL, the American history podcast, we take on the last third of the 19th century, a period known as both Reconstruction and the Gilded Age. As many of you know, the Gilded Age is the period of US history that I specialize in. I know I’m biased, but to me, this is the most fascinating and compelling period in US history. It’s when the United States leaves behind the agrarian republic envisioned by founders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and plunges headlong into an industrial age that even Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined. It’s a time of incredible wealth production (hence, the Gilded label), as the United States surges to become the world‘s foremost industrial economy.And along with that comes the rise of great cities like New York and Chicago, and unprecedented immigration from Europe and Asia. It’s also an exciting age of revolutionary new technology. The railroad spreads across the continent, along with the Internet of the day, the telegraph. Electricity and electric lights begin to transform every day life. And yet, despite all this exciting progress, the last third of the 19th century was a deeply unsettling time. The rise of big business alarmed many Americans, because industrialists like John D Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie acquired stupendous wealth – and with that wealth came extraordinary power. They could use that power to compel Congress or state legislatures to do their will. And they could force their workers to accept long hours, low pay, and dangerous conditions. And if those workers went on strike? Industrialists could count on the local police, state militia, or even federal troops, to crush it. And there were a lot of strikes in this area – 37,000 between 1880 and 1900. And some of them – like the Great Uprising railroad strike of 1877 – were huge and resulted in scores of people killed. And in between strikes, the evidence of rising levels of poverty and unrest was everywhere. The situation out in the heartland was just as fraught. American farmers struggled against the usual things like drought and locusts, but also predatory banks and railroads. So as urban workers join unions like the Knights of Labor, farmers joined Farmers Alliances that demanded the government regulate banks and railroads. Both movements represented popular resistance to an economy and political system that they believed had become rigged in favor of the rich and powerful. It would eventually lead to the rise of the Populists and the People’s Party insurgency of the 1890s. And there was great turmoil and violence elsewhere, in the American south and west. In the south, the first decade after the Civil War saw African-Americans gain full citizenship and civil rights. And they used these rights to build new lives as free people and to exert political power. But by the mid-1870s white southerners rose up to overthrow Reconstruction and impose white supremacy, establishing a racist and oppressive social order known as Jim Crow. And in the west, the US Army launched the final, bloody campaign to defeat Native Americans and forcibly remove them to reservations. I think you'll agree, there’s a LOT happening in the Gilded Age and Reconstruction, that last third of the 19th century. In many ways, it’s the period when modern America takes form. And because this transformation marked a new era in US history, it raised compelling and troubling questions about democracy, equality, and citizenship. To explore these questions and the answers and how Americans in the late 19th century struggled to answer them, I speak with historian Richard White, author of a new book on the period, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896. Among the many things we discuss in this conversation: How Reconstruction and the Gilded Age are inextricably linked. The Republican Party’s post-Civil War vision of eliminating regional differences and creating a unified, homogeneous republic. How and why the Republican Party initially fought during Reconstruction to create a multiracial republic based on equal citizenship but then allowed white supremacists to overthrow it. How Buffalo Bill created the popular (and convenient) narrative of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. How John Gast’s famous painting, “American Progress” (1872), became the iconic image of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, despite “getting it all wrong.” Why resistance to the onset of wage labor explains so much of the civil unrest in the Gilded Age. Why most Americans in the Gilded Age feared the rich and worried that plutocracy and inequality would destroy the republic. How “cooperation” (and socialism) emerged as a unifying ideal in the Gilded Age among those who feared the rise of inequality and corporate power. Why all three major political parties (Republican, Democratic, and Populist) by 1896 agreed that the challenges posed by industrialization and big business required a stronger federal government. What Americans living in the second Gilded Age can learn from the first Gilded Age. About Richard White – website Further Reading Richard White, The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford, 2017) Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988) Edward T. O’Donnell, Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age (2015) Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era (1987) Heather Cox Richardson, The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901 (2001) Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (2007) Elliott West, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009) About the John Gast painting – Picturing History Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Hope It Hurts” (Free Music Archive) Ketsa, “I Will Be There” (Free Music Archive) Jon Luc Hefferman “Winter Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © Snoring Beagle International, 2017
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do. Resources for this episode: Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
As a Princeton Professor of history emerita and the author of seven books, Dr. Nell Irvin Painter has made her mark in the world of academia and now as a painter. Carol Jenkins sat down with her to discuss her voice, her art, and her opinion.
“All men are created equal.” Those words, from the Declaration of Independence, are central to the story that Americans tell about ourselves and our history. But what did those words mean to the man who actually wrote them? By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika. Key sources for this episode: Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning The Racial Equity Institute
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn't always so. The Greeks didn't do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn't do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn't do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter's fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn’t always so. The Greeks didn’t do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn’t do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn’t do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter’s fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn’t always so. The Greeks didn’t do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn’t do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn’t do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter’s fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn’t always so. The Greeks didn’t do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn’t do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn’t do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter’s fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn’t always so. The Greeks didn’t do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn’t do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn’t do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter’s fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We in the West tend to classify people by the color of their skin, or what we casually call “race.” But, as Nell Irvin Painter shows in her fascinating new book The History of White People (Norton, 2010), it wasn't always so. The Greeks didn't do it, at least very seriously. The Romans didn't do it, at least very often. And the folks of the Middle Ages didn't do it, at least with much gusto. In fact, the people who invented the modern concept of “race” and the classification of people by skin color were Europeans and Americans of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Why then and there? As Painter points out, a number of historical trends coincided to produced “racial science” and its child “whiteness” in Europe and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These trends included: the “discovery” of New Worlds (and the people in them) in the Americas, Asia, and Africa; the evolution of the African slave trade and with it the historically novel identification of “negroes” with slavery; the birth of proto-anthoropology and with its ancillary sciences (e.g., “craniometry”); nationalism, and desire of nationalists (especially Germans) to discover the intrinsic “greatness” of particular nations (notably theirs); the massive influx of “undesirable” Irish and Eastern Europeans into the United States; and the “progressive” idea that human populations could be bred for “superior traits,” that is, eugenics. All these things forced European and American elites to think hard about what kind of people they were. The conclusion they reached was that they were (variously) “Anglo Saxons,” “Nordics,” “Aryans” and eventually just “Whites.” That they believed themselves to be superior to all other “races” should not surprise us (humans being naturally prideful). But the muddle-headed quality of their thought on matters racial should raise some eyebrows, for these people were not dumb. They were, however, afraid, and fear often drives even well-intentioned, intelligent people to say foolish things. This they certainly did. Alas, some people still do. They should read Nell Painter's fine book. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
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Dr. Nell Irvin Painter visits The Context of White Supremacy. A world renown historian and emeritus professor at Princeton University, Dr. Painter has published a number of books examining US history, White Supremacy/Racism and women's history. She's now enjoying retirement and a second career as a dazzling painter. We'll discuss her 2010 publication, The History of White People. This book received widespread and critical acclaim. It provides an in depth examination of the genesis of the concept of "race" and demonstrates how this concept is inexorably linked to White Supremacy. Dr. Painter notes the changes in whom was accepted as White and the loose characteristics associated with this Race of people. We also spend significant time exploring the homoerotic and child rape components of White culture. Dr. Painter notes for years, Whites bragged about the most beautiful bodies being White (of course), young boys. #TheCOWS13 INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943#
This year’s events honoring Black History Month at Reed celebrate music, political activism, and scholarship. The program, which is free and open to the public, opens February 6 and 7 with a master class and performance by award-winning composer and pianist Geri Allen. A second event, February 21, brings internationally known writer, scholar, and activist Angela Davis to campus. The program concludes with a lecture by historian Nell Irvin Painter on February 28.
This year’s events honoring Black History Month at Reed celebrate music, political activism, and scholarship. The program, which is free and open to the public, opens February 6 and 7 with a master class and performance by award-winning composer and pianist Geri Allen. A second event, February 21, brings internationally known writer, scholar, and activist Angela Davis to campus. The program concludes with a lecture by historian Nell Irvin Painter on Februar
This year’s events honoring Black History Month at Reed celebrate music, political activism, and scholarship. The program, which is free and open to the public, opens February 6 and 7 with a master class and performance by award-winning composer and pianist Geri Allen. A second event, February 21, brings internationally known writer, scholar, and activist Angela Davis to campus. The program concludes with a lecture by historian Nell Irvin Painter on February 28.
This year’s events honoring Black History Month at Reed celebrate music, political activism, and scholarship. The program, which is free and open to the public, opens February 6 and 7 with a master class and performance by award-winning composer and pianist Geri Allen. A second event, February 21, brings internationally known writer, scholar, and activist Angela Davis to campus. The program concludes with a lecture by historian Nell Irvin Painter on Februar
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower-income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in the lead up to Tuesday's potentially decisive primaries. Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today's economic disparity as a new "Gilded Age" that threatens democracy.
Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today's economic disparity as a new "Gilded Age" that threatens democracy.
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