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Nell Irvin Painter
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La notion de race fait un retour violent dans le langage et les conflits sociaux en France, comme si le sujet avait été refoulé, alors que les États-Unis n'ont pas cessé de s'y confronter. Les minorités visibles n'hésitent plus à revendiquer leur couleur ou leur identité racisée. L'historienne afro-américaine, Nell Irvin Painter, adopte un point de vue révolutionnaire : au lieu d'étudier la négritude, elle interroge la construction de la notion de race blanche, depuis les Scythes de l'Antiquité jusqu'aux catégories raciales utilisées dans l'Occident d'aujourd'hui.
Elle étudie la manière dont la désignation de Blancs et de Non-Blancs a évolué selon les croyances politiques et la représentation des corps. Elle montre les constructions du regard sur la couleur, et leurs liens avec les critères esthétiques de la beauté féminine. Elle étudie les passages entre les pensée américaines et européennes au XIXe siècle. Elle analyse les catégories raciales qui définissent les identités aujourd'hui.
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Nell Irvin Painter : I just keep talking
Nell Irvin Painter
- Random House Us
- Doubleday Books
- 3 Avril 2024
- 9780385548908
From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship. Led by an unbridled curiosity for her subjects, Painter asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. I Just Keep Talking assembles her writing for the first time into a single volume, displaying the breadth and depth of Painter's decades-long historical inquiry and the evolution of Black political thought-and includes a dazzling introduction and coda being published for the first time in this collection. From her mining of figures like Carrie Buck and Martin Delaney for their resonance today, to a deep dive into the history of exclusion through the work of Toni Morrison, to a discussion of the American political landscape after the 2016 election, Painter nimbly portrays the trials of a country frequently at war with itself.
Along with Painter's writing, this collection offers her original artwork, threaded throughout the book as counterpoint and emphasis. Her visual art shows a deft mind turning toward the tragedy and humor of her subjects; pulling from newspapers, personal records, and original sketches, Painter's artwork testifies to the dialectic of tremendous change and stasis that continues to shape American history.
These essays resist easy answers in favor of complexity, the inescapable sense of our country's potential thwarted by its failures. This collection will surely solidify Painter's place among the finest critics and writers of the last half century.