“The American sense of the importance, the fundamental importance of the black-white dichotomy, comes out of societies founded in the era of the African slave trade, so societies like ours, that is to say the western hemisphere, the Caribbean and so forth, we share a lot in common.” BlackWhiteCommonShareImportanceFundamentalsTradeSlaveWesternErasCaribbeanHemisphereDichotomyBlack WhiteSlave Trade Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.” PeopleWellsIdeasStatesMightBlackWhiteUnitedUnited StatesEastFranceGermanyBlack White Author:Nell Irvin Painter
