And her work has the additional merit of following the past into the present, tracing the history of black Americans all the way up to the hip-hop era, the controversies surrounding black voters in the 2000 presidential election and the ongoing issues of incarceration and health care. Norton, 2010, paperback, March 2011),Creating Black Americans. It does an excellent job revealing both the African and the American dimensions of African-American history. A prolific and award-winning scholar, her most recent books are The History of White People (W. Painter is clearly adept at writing straightforward history, however, and on this front the book is lucid, engaging and topical. Thus, she inadvertently diminishes their power as complicated pieces of individual expression. Nevertheless, readers will likely be frustrated by the lack of analysis accompanying the images-Painter simply summarizes most of the art works, leaving much of their complexity and ambiguity unexplored. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Her primary purpose in including artworks is to illustrate historical points and to show black Americans as creators of their own history. Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Nell Irvin Painter is the Edward Professor of American History at Princeton. To be fair, Painter is a historian, not an art critic. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings.
The result is a book that contains both a compelling narrative and numerous arresting images, but that does not always successfully tie the two together. , etc.) aims not merely to provide an updated scholarly account of African-American history, but to enrich our understanding of it with the subjective views of black artists, which she places alongside the more objective views of academics. This new study by Princeton historian Painter ( Standing at Armageddon
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