Craig Venter claimed, proves that race is a "social concept, not a scientific one." But as Nell Irvin Painter explains in "The History of White People," her exhaustive and fascinating new look at ...

WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS’ Independent Lens, presents a new animated musical series about America’s reckoning with race and injustice. The History Of White People In America takes the ...

laws have struggled with the rights of people of mixed race. But in her new book, The History of White People, historian Nell Irvin Painter explores the concept of whiteness — and explains how ...

Is it one race of people? Were people defined as "white" hundreds of years ago? In her new book, "The History of White People," author Nell Irvin Painter tells the story of what she considers a ...

A series of musical animations, chronicling diverse experiences of how race has helped shape American culture. These shorts provide insight into the unique lived experiences of historical figures ...

Miller and readers of Painter’s book, “The History of White People” for a discussion about race and racism. In “The History of White People,” Nell Irvin Painter writes that America “is ...

and Scandinavian races being white, does that imply that these races belong to the Aryan race? The old theory concerning the origin of the European races was based upon certain linguistic ...

The suits before the court involve race-based admissions ... Here is a brief history of the laws and practices that created affirmative action for white people. While waiting for his government ...

His wish mirrors that of the white people featured in my 2017 book, “Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy.” The book tells the history of what I call “empathetic racial ...

The U.S. Supreme Court last month rejected race-based affirmative action ... One, on the unknown history of affirmative action for White people, was written by Leslie T. Fenwick, the author ...