“We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentStatesUnitedUnited StatesImportanceHarderDifferent PeoplesWhiteness Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“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
