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THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE


by Nell Irvin Painter, Norton Paperback, $17.95  $15.26

Ever since the enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner,
racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant
peoples to justify their domination of others.  Filling a huge gap in the historical
literature that has long focused on the non-white, eminent historian
Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of western civilization,
tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the
frequent worship of various wite races for economic, social and
political ends.  The History of White People is a mind expanding and myth-
destroyhing exploration of notions of white race--not merely of skin color
but also a signal of power, prestige and beauty to be withheld
and granted selectively