Read The History of White People Online
Authors: Nell Irvin Painter
Tags: #History, #Politics, #bought-and-paid-for, #Non-Fiction, #Sociology
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Fausto-Sterling, “Refashioning Race,” 17–18. It is often assumed that sickle-cell anemia occurs only among African-descended people, which is not the case. The sickling trait evolved in malarial regions, and people descended from such places, e.g., Italy and Greece, are also susceptible to sickle-cell anemia.
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Michael J. Bamshad and Steve E. Olson, “Does Race Exist?”
Scientific American.com
10 Nov. 2003. Bamshad and Olson conclude, “If races are defined as genetically discrete groups, no. But researchers can use some genetic information to group individuals into clusters with medical relevance.” Also Troy Duster, “Race and Reification in Science,”
Science
307, no. 5712 (18 Feb. 2005): 1050–51. See also
Wikipedia
, “Isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Isosorbide_dinitrate/ hydralazine, and BiDil’s website, headlined, “Prescription Drug for African Americans with Heart Disease,” and showing an Asian American M.D. and an African American patient, http://www.bidil.com/.
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The material in this section comes from several sources: Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin, “The Evolution of Human Skin Coloration,”
Journal of Human Evolution
39 (2000): 57–106, and “Skin Deep,”
Scientific American
, Oct. 2002, pp. 74–82; and R. L. Lamason, V. A. Canfield, and K. C. Cheng, “SLC24A5, a Putative Cation Exchanger, Affects Pigmentation in Zebrafish and Humans,”
Science
310 (Dec. 16, 2006): 1782–86. See also Rick Weiss, “Scientists Find a DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin,”
Washington Post
, 16 Dec. 2005, p. A01,
ScientificAmerican.com
, 16 Dec. 2005, Christen Brownlee,
Science News Online
, week of 17 Dec. 2005 (vol. 168, no. 25), and
Wikipedia
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skin_color.
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Aravinda Chakravarti, “Kinship: Race Relations,”
Nature
457 (22 Jan. 2009): no pagination.
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Consider Newark, New Jersey, a place supposedly characterized by “ruin, a town known only for murder, blight, and feckless negritude…a state of spiritual and moral zombiehood…angry Zulus…a Mugabe manqué…the Heart of Newark Darkness.” Scott Rabb, “The Battle of Newark,”
Esquire
, July 2008, pp. 66–73, 116–17.
Chapter 1, figure 1. Courtesy of Maps.com.
Chapter 4, figure 1. http://kaukasus.blogspot.com/2007/04/young-georgian-girl.html, 29 April 2007, and http://www.flickr.com/photos/24298774@N00/108738272.
Chapter 4, figure 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Image:Ossetian _girl_1883.jpg.
Chapter 4, figure 3. Courtesy Sovfoto, Inc.
Chapter 4, figure 4. Courtesy Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Gift of the Homer Family.
Chapter 4, figure 5. Courtesy Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y., Louvre, Paris, France.
Chapter 4, figure 6. Courtesy Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y., Louvre, Paris, France.
Chapter 4, figure 7. Gift of William Wilson Corcoran. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chapter 4, figure 8. Courtesy Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Chapter 4, figure 9. Copyright © 2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Chapter 4, figure 10. “Book Cover” from
Orientalism
by Edward Said. Copyright © 1978 by Edward Said. Used by permission of Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Chapter 4, figure 11. Courtesy Thomas Zummer.
Chapter 5, figure 1. Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, N.Y.
Chapter 5, figure 2. Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.
Chapter 5, figure 3. Courtesy Princeton University Archives. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library.
Chapter 5, figure 4. Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Chapter 6, figure 1. Courtesy Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek, Gottingen, Germany.
Chapter 6, figure 4. Courtesy Sovfoto, Inc.
Chapter 6, figure 5. Courtesy Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, Germany.
Chapter 6, figure 7. Courtesy Gleimhaus Literaturmuseum, Halberstadt, Germany.
Chapter 7, figure 1. Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, N.Y.
Chapter 8, figure 1. Courtesy Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Chapter 8, figure 2. Courtesy Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Chapter 8, figure 3. Courtesy Art Resource. Photo: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, N.Y.
Chapter 8, figure 4. Courtesy of the Yale University Library.
Chapter 10, figure 1. Courtesy Concord Free Public Library.
Chapter 10, figure 2. Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.
Chapter 14, figure 2. Courtesy MIT Museum.
Chapter 15, figure 9. Courtesy
New York Times
archives.
Chapter 16, figure 1. Courtesy American Philosophical Society.
Chapter 17, figure 2. Courtesy Wisconsin Historical Society, WHS Image ID 63842.
Chapter 18, figure 2. Courtesy American Philosophical Society.
Chapter 18, figure 3. Courtesy Stanford University Archives.
Chapter 19, figure 1. Courtesy Arthur Estabrook Papers, M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University of Albany Libraries (SUNY Albany).
Chapter 22, figure 1. Courtesy
Time
magazine.
Chapter 22, figure 2. Courtesy Picture History.
Chapter 22, figure 3. Photograph © 2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Chapter 22, figure 4. Photograph © 2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Chapter 24, figure 1. Courtesy Special Collections, Vassar College Library.
Chapter 24, figure 2. Map from “The Races of Mankind,” copyright 1943 by The Public Affairs Committee, Inc., from
Race: Science and Politics
, by Ruth Benedict. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Chapter 25, figure 1. Courtesy Princeton University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library.
Chapter 25, figure 2. Courtesy Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.
Chapter 26, figure 1. Courtesy Picture History.
Chapter 27, figure 1. Malcom X at a Harlem civil rights rally © Bettman/CORBIS. Chapter 28, figure 1.
Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000
. (US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office), 2002: 100.