Fri 1/21 @ 12:30PM
Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People, will speak @ Case Western Reserve University on Fri 1/21 as part of the university’s weeklong 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “The Weight of History and the Challenge of Change.”
About Nell Irvin Painter:
She will elaborate on her new book, described as a journey “through more than 2,000 years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but the frequent praise of whiteness.”
A distinguished 19th and 20th century American historian and scholar, Painter is the Edwards Professor Emeritus of American History at Princeton University. From1997 to 2000, she directed the African-American Studies program at Princeton.
She has won much acclaim for writing about the history of the south—especially Hosea Hudson, Gertrude Thomas and Wilbur Cash—in her articles and seven books, including Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol; Standing at Armageddon: the United States, 1877-1919: The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South and Exodusters; and Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction.
CWRU – Ford Auditorium – 11100 Euclid Ave. – Cle
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