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She was born Nell Irvin to Dona and Frank E. Irvin, Senior She had an older brother Frank who died young.
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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
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The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their assigned places in the southern social hierarchy throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, their lives were thoroughly entangled. In this powerful collection, Painter reaches across the color line to examine how race, gender, class, and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women and men in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century South. Through six essays, she explores such themes as interracial sex, white supremacy, and the physical and psychological violence of slavery, using insights gleaned from psychology and feminist social science as well as social, cultural, and intellectual history. At once pioneering and reflective, the book illustrates both the breadth of Painter's interests and the originality of her intellectual contributions. It will inspire and guide a new generation of historians who take her goal of transcending the color bar as their own.
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present PaperbackNell Irvin Painter (Author)
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Sojourner Truth-ex-slave and fiery abolitionist of imposing physique, itinerant Pentecostal preacher, and singer of wit and originality-became a national symbol for black American women. This biography sets out to uncover the life of a complex woman.
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Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture. The book describes the staggering number of Africans--over ten million--forcibly transported to the New World, most doomed to brutal servitude in Brazil and the Caribbean. Painter looks at the free black population, numbering close to half a million by 1860 (compared to almost four million slaves), and provides a gripping account of the horrible conditions of slavery itself. The book examines the Civil War, revealing that it only slowly became a war to end slavery, and shows how Reconstruction, after a promising start, was shut down by terrorism by white supremacists. Painter traces how through the long Jim Crow decades, blacks succeeded against enormous odds, creating schools and businesses and laying the foundations of our popular culture. We read about the glorious outburst of artistic creativity of the Harlem Renaissance, the courageous struggles for Civil Rights in the 1960s, the rise and fall of Black Power, the modern hip-hop movement, and two black Secretaries of State. Painter concludes that African Americans today are wealthier and better educated, but the disadvantaged are as vulnerable as ever. Painter deeply enriches her narrative with a series of striking works of art--more than 150 in total, most in full color--works that profoundly engage with black history and that add a vital dimension to the story, a new form of witness that testifies to the passion and creativity of the African-American experience. * Among the dozens of artists featured are Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, and Kara Walker * Filled with sharp portraits of important African Americans, from Olaudah Equiano (one of the first African slaves to leave a record of his captivity) and Toussaint L'Ouverture (who led the Haitian revolution), to Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
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She was born Nell Irvin to Dona and Frank E. Irvin, Senior She had an older brother Frank who died young.
Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1964; student, University Bordeaux, France, 1962-1963; student, University Ghana, 1965-1966; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1974.
She is retired from Princeton University, and served as president of the Organization of American Historians. She also served as president of the Southern Historical Association. Her family moved from Houston, Texas, to Oakland, California when she was ten weeks old.
This was part of the second wave of the Great Migration of millions of African Americans from the Deep South to urban centers.
Some of their relatives had been in California since the 1920s. The Irvins went to California in the 1940s with the pull of increasing jobs in the defense industry.
Her mother Dona Irvin held a degree from Houston College for Negroes (1937), and later taught in the public schools of Oakland. Her father had to drop out of college in 1937 during the Great Depression.
He eventually trained for work as a laboratory technician.
He worked for years at the University of California at Berkeley, where he trained many students in lab techniques. Painter earned her Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. During her undergraduate years, she studied French medieval history at the University of Bordeaux, France, 1962-1963.
She also studied abroad at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, 1965-1966.
In 1967, she completed an Master of Arts at the University of California at Los Los Angeles In 1974, she earned an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
She returned to study and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Rutgers University in 2009. Painter has received honorary degrees from Dartmouth College, Wesleyan University, and Yale University, among other institutions.
Marriage and family In 1989, Painter married the mathematician Glenn Shafer, co-creator of the Dempster–Shafer theory.
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(The color line, once all too solid in southern public lif...)
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( Winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize. )
( A New York Times bestseller: “This terrific new book . ...)
( The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves. )
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Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences. Member American Council Learned Society, American Antiquarian Society, American History Association (member program committee 1976-1978, J. Franklin Jameson fellowship committee 1978-1979, Beveridge and Dunning prizes committee 1985-1987, member council 1991-1993, Roelker Mentorship award 2001), American Studies Association (member international committee 1983-1988, member national council 1989-1992, member advisory council 1991-1992), Association Study Afro-American Life and History (member program committee 1976, Carter G. Woodson award 2004), Association Black Women Historians (member research committee since 1980, national director 1982-1984, chair Brown public prize committee 1983-1986, 88-91), Berkshire Conference Women Historians (member program committee 1976), Institute Southern Studies (member executive committee 1987-1988), Organization American Historians (member committee status women 1975-1977, member program committee 1977-1979, 83-85, Frederick Jackson Turner award committee 1983, member executive board 1984-1987, chair ad hoc committee on minority historians 1985-1987, chair Avery O. Craven award 1994-1995), National Book Foundation (chair non-fiction jury, National Book awards 1994), Social Science Research Council (member committee social science personnel 1977-1978), Southern History Association (chair Syndor prize committee 1991-1992), Southern Regional Council (member Lillian Smith Book prize committee 1986, member executive committee 1987), Society of America Historians (chair Parkman prize committee since 1993), Southern History Association (president 2006-2007), Organization American Historians (president since 2007).