joshi is a leading historian of united states and retired from teaching at princeton university and prolific and and award-winning scholar on race relations including black americans and ase second edition of armageddon and we're pleased to welcome her here this evening for "the history of white people" profess 39 wellcome. [applause] >> hello. you are a nice looking group. thanks for coming. did i hear some 1 degree? [laughter] what i would like to do is read it to you for about 70 minutes from the first part of the book and the back of the book then we will talk. okay? i might have been titled this book construction of white americans from antiquity to the present because its six floors the concept that lies within the history of events. i have chosen this strategy because race is an idea and not a fact and a question of the conceptual rather than the factual morale. american history offers a large bounty of commentary on what it means to be in nonwhite in moving equally between alternations the meaning of racist color, from callers to negro to african-american and two black to african-ame