Books written by Nell Irvin Painter

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  Confederate Statues and Memorialization

  I mean there's a tremendous difference in that regard in terms of how memory and memorialization play out between the winners and the losers. clinton: And a memorial to Elizabeth Thorn,12 who buried the dead at Gettysburg, ...

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  Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality

  As I wrote in a recent tribute to Justice Marshall: There appears to be a deliberate retrenchment by a majority of the current Supreme Court on many basic issues of human rights that Thurgood Marshall advocated and that the Warren and ...

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  The History of White People

  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 ...

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  Southern History across the Color Line

  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.

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  Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol

  Offers a portrait of Sojourner Truth, who was born into slavery, transformed herself into a pentecostal preacher, and spoke out against slavery and in support of oppressed people

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  Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919

  Examines the years of growth and technological progress as America changed from an agrarian society to an industrial culture

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  Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

  This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives" (Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage).

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  The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical

  Oral biography of the African American who was a Communist Party leader in the U.S. in the 1930s and 1940s.

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  Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present

  Enhanced by nearly 150 images of painting, sculptures, photographs, quilts, and other work by black artists, offers a survey of African American history which covers the predominant political, economic, and demographic conditions of black ...

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  Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction

  They were headed for the homesteading lands of Kansas, the 'Garden Spot of the Earth' and the 'quintessential Free State, the land of John Brown'....Painter examines their exodus in fascinating detail.

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  Southern History across the Color Line, Second Edition

  This edition features refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our continued struggles with racism in the twenty-first century.

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  Standing at Armageddon: A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

  Nell Irvin Painter will be featured in the PBS multipart series The Progressive Era with Bill Moyers, which coincides with the release of the updated edition of this acclaimed work.

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  The Narrative of Hosea Hudson

  The Narrative of Hosea Hudson

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  The Progressive Era

  The Progressive Era

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  The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life As a Negro Communist in the South

  The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life As a Negro Communist in the South

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  Histoire des Blancs: Voix Libres

  L’historienne africaine-américaine, Nell Irvin Painter, adopte un point de vue révolutionnaire : au lieu d’étudier la négritude, elle interroge la construction de la notion de race blanche, depuis les Scythes de l’Antiquité ...

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  Histoire de la race blanche

  Au lieu d'étudier la négritude, l'auteur interroge la notion de race blanche, depuis les Scythes de l'Antiquité jusqu'aux catégories raciales de l'Occident contemporain.

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  Southern History Across the Color Line

  This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.

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  Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

  No one who reads Painter's groundbreaking biography will forget this landmark figure and the story of her courageous life.

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  Southern History Across the Color Line

  This edition features refreshed essays and a new preface that sheds light on the development of Painter's thought and our continued struggles with racism in the twenty-first century"--