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Nell Irvin Painter is Director of the Program in African-American
Studies and the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton
University. Painter earned a B.A. in anthropology from the University
of California, Berkeley; attended the University of Bordeaux to
study French medieval history; the University of Ghana, Institute
of African Studies; returned to the U.S. to earn an M.A. in African
history from UCLA and a Ph.D. in American History from Harvard.
She was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the Princeton
faculty in 1988. Painter is the author of four books and many articles
and reviews in American history. The books are Exodusters:
Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction; The Narrative of
Hosea Hudson: His Life as a Negro Communist in the South; Standing
at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919; and Sojourner
Truth, A Life, A Symbol. Her current research project builds
on her analysis of Sojourner Truth's photographs and concerns personal
beauty.
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Slaves/Slavery in the American
Imaginary
March 17-21, 1999 at
the University of Oklahoma
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Perpetually a fundamental issue in American society, race has
inspired a great deal of commentary from thoughtful people over
more than two centuries. Usually matters of gender and class
disappear from American thinking about race, but gender and
class dimensions must be grasped in order to make sense of contemporary
race relations. This seminar goes back to slavery, the root
of our problems, to examine ways in which enslaved people and
the institution of slavery have been represented in American
writing - autobiographical, biographical, and fictional - searching
for the crucial assumptions that still inform our discussions
of race relations.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol, Nell Irvin
Painter, W. W. Norton, 1996.
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Penguin Classic,
1998.
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Penguin
Classic.
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