“Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsIntellectualSlaveryPassionateUncomfortableAbolition Author:Nell Irvin Painter
“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
“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
