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.
What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for. - Nell Irvin Painter
What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.
- 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 Afric… - 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 Afric…
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. - Nell Irvin Painter
Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.
Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostli… - Nell Irvin Painter
Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostli…
Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which wa… - Nell Irvin Painter
Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which wa…
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it? - Nell Irvin Painter
I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?
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 uncomfort… - Nell Irvin Painter
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 uncomfort…
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than ha… - Nell Irvin Painter
Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than ha…
You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pl… - Nell Irvin Painter
You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pl…
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