The History of White People

The History of White People

2010 • 512 pages

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15

The history of fragile white men stroking each other's egos with pseudoscience, insisting too much. The book is drily informative with interspersals of bemusingly casual commentary, ironic speech, and belaboured listings of abuse-as-scholarship. The last chapter jumps sixty years, promotes exceptionalism, and asks naive questions for the white gaze.

October 11, 2020