Nov 7 - WHY WHITE PEOPLE ARE CALLED 'CAUCASIAN' (ILLUSTRATED). Nell Painter

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http://grad.berkeley.edu/lectures/event.php?id=770&lecturer=500

Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton
University


November 07, 2013 — 4:10 PM International House Auditorium, 2299
Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley

Nell Painter’s lecture will combine the discursive meanings of
scholarship with the visual meaning of painting, to answer, literally,
why white people are called 'Caucasian,' what that looks like, and how
they all relate to our ideas about personal beauty.

ABOUT NELL PAINTER

An influential and prolific historian, Painter is the Edwards Professor
of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University, where she chaired
the African-American Studies Program during1997-2000. She is author of
seven books and many other scholarly writings on a wide range of topics
in American history.

Her latest book, The History of White People, appeared to critical
acclaim in 2010.

Her distinction in the field has been recognized with Guggenheim and
numerous other fellowships; honorary degrees awarded by Yale, Wesleyan,
Dartmouth and SUNY-New Paltz; the highest alumni/ae award given to
Harvard University’s doctoral graduates; and the presidencies of both
the Organization of American Historians and the Southern History
Association.

Painter is also a professional artist, striving, she has written, to
engage archives of images and texts, juxtaposing these materials so as
to enable the viewer to construct a sense of visual meaning to combine
the discursive meanings of scholarship with the visual meanings of
painting. As a university teacher and mentor to younger scholars, she
states, she sought to include the experiences of African Americans,
women and the working class within the narratives of U.S. history. Her
recent project, entitled Odalisque Atlas, combines imagery dealing with
issues of beauty, sex, and slavery that she discovered during research
for The History of White People.




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A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . . . [explores]
the ‘notion of whiteness,’ an idea as dangerous as it is
seductive.”—Boston Globe

Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history,
eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two
thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the
invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for
economic, scientific, and political ends. A story filled with towering
historical figures, The History of White People closes a huge gap in
literature that has long focused on the non-white and forcefully reminds
us that the concept of “race” is an all-too-human invention whose
meaning, importance, and reality have changed as it has been driven by a
long and rich history of events. 70 black-and-white illustrations

http://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742




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