Book Talk with Nell Irvin Painter

Location: Salomon 001

In her newly released book, THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE, leading historian Nell Irvin Painter offers a comprehensive assessment of western ideas of race, beauty, and blood from antiquity to the present time revealing that whiteness is not a fact by an idea, whose meaning, importance, and reality has been shaped by a long and rich history of events. Book signing and reception to follow. This event is sponsored by the Africana Studies Dept.