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A New York Times best-seller: “This fantastic new guide. . . [examines] the ‘notion of whiteness,’ a concept as harmful because it is seductive.”—Boston GlobeTelling probably the most significant neglected tale in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides people through significantly more than two-thousand years of Western world, lighting not just the creation of competition but additionally the regular compliment of “whiteness” for financial, medical, and governmental ends.