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Summary: Historian Painter centers her momentous study of racial classification on the slave trade and the nation-building efforts which dominated the United States in the 18th century, when thinkers led by Ralph Waldo Emerson strove to explain the rapid progress of America within the context of white superiority. Her research is filled with frequent, startling realizations about how tenuous and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 PAIPainter, Nell Irvin
Summary: A Princeton University historian describes her post-retirement decision to study art, a venture that compelled her to find relevance in the undervalued masters she loves, the obstacles faced by women artists, and the challenges of balancing art and life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 700.92 PAIPainter, Nell Irvin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996