Who’s White?

Nell Irvin Painter’s title, “The History of White People,” is a provocation in several ways: it’s monumental in sweep, and its absurd grandiosity should call to mind the fact that writing a “History of Black People” might seem perfectly reasonable...

must read this review. NPR made it sound reasonable. edit:

The reviewer was surprised. She liked the book but praises it with faint damns.

I feel no real need to read it. The library will supply it in a few years.

Horrors more or less known. A few surprises.