A New Book Release by Historian Nell Irvin Painter
Historian Nell Irvin Painter
I Just Keep Talking—A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter. Nell’s newest book (to be published April 23, 2024 by Doubleday) is a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it.
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 new introduction and coda. Along with Painter’s writing, this collection features her original artwork, threaded throughout the book as counterpoint.
See this link for more information, including descriptive text and praise from noted authors on I Just Keep Talking.
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Jacket art: Self-Portrait 11 (2010) by Nell Irvin Painter; Jacket design by John Fontana; doubleday.com, 4/2024
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves”—A wide-ranging conversation about how white people became “white.” Nell is interviewed by Garrison Hayes for Mother Jones magazine. October 22, 2023. Video and text.
This interview includes the fluidity and historical contexts of racial identities in general, the cyclical nature of historical erasure in American education, and even Dr. Painter’s perspective on the capitalization of Black and “White.”