The History of White People 
by Nell Irvin Painter
W. W. Norton & Company | 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-393-04934-3 | ePUB/PDF | 2.13/12.7 mb 
http://www.amazon.com/History-White-People-Irvin-Painter/dp/0393339742
PDF conversion is mine

Who are white people and where did they come from? Elementary questions with elusive, contradictory, and complicated answers set historian Painter's inquiry into motion. From notions of whiteness in Greek literature to the changing nature of white identity in direct response to Malcolm X and his black power successors, Painter's wide-ranging response is a who's who of racial thinkers and a synoptic guide to their work. Her commodious history of an idea accommodates Caesar; Saint Patrick, history's most famous British slave of the early medieval period; Madame de Staël; and Emerson, the philosopher king of American white race theory. Painter (Sojourner Truth) reviews the diverse cast in their intellectual milieus, linking them to one another across time and language barriers. Conceptions of beauty (ideals of white beauty [became] firmly embedded in the science of race), social science research, and persistent North/South stereotypes prove relevant to defining whiteness. What we can see, the author observes, depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for. For the variable, changing, and often capricious definition of whiteness, Painter offers a kaleidoscopic lens.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. GREEKS AND SCYTHIANS
2. ROMANS, CELTS, GAULS, AND GERMANI
3. WHITE SLAVERY
4. WHITE SLAVERY AS BEAUTY IDEAL
5. THE WHITE BEAUTY IDEAL AS SCIENCE
6. JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH NAMES WHITE PEOPLE "CAUCASIAN"
7. GERMAINE DE STAEL'S GERMAN LESSONS
8. EARLY AMERICAN WHITE PEOPLE OBSERVED
9. THE FIRST ALIEN WAVE
10. THE EDUCATION OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON
11. ENGLISH TRAITS
12. EMERSON IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WHITE PEOPLE
13. THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY
14. THE SECOND ENLARGEMENT OF AMERICAN WHITENESS
15. WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY AND THE RACES OF EUROPE
16. FRANZ BOAS, DISSENTER
17. ROOSEVELT, ROSS, AND RACE SUICIDE
18. THE DISCOVERY OF DEGENERATE FAMILIES
19. FROM DEGENERATE FAMILIES TO STERILIZATION
20. INTELLIGENCE TESTING OF NEW IMMIGRANTS
21. THE GREAT UNREST
22. THE MELTING POT A FAILURE?
23. ANTHROPOSOCIOLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF ALIEN RACES
24. REFUTING RACIAL SCIENCE
25. A NEW WHITE RACE POLITICS
26. THE THIRD ENLARGEMENT OF AMERICAN WHITENESS
27. BLACK NATIONALISM AND WHITE ETHNICS
28. THE FOURTH ENLARGEMENT OF AMERICAN WHITENESS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS