Copyright © 2010 by Nell Irvin Painter

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Painter, Nell Irvin.
The history of White people / Nell Irvin Painter.
p. cm.

ISBN: 978-0-393-04934-3

1. Whites—Race identity—United States.
2. Whites—United States—History.
3. United States—Race relations. I. Title.

E184.A1P29 2010

305.800973—dc22

2009034515

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