As a scholar, Professor Painter has published numerous books, articles, reviews, and other essays. Her most recent books are Creating Black Americans and Southern History Across the Color Line. Six earlier books are also still in print.

Her most recent book, Creating Black Americans, published by Oxford University Press, shows how African Americans have drawn on art and history to develop their identity in the United States. She is now completing two additional books, to be published by W.W. Norton: The History of White People and Personal Beauty: Biology or Culture?

Books Authored by Nell Painter

• The History of White People
• Creating Black Americans
• Southern History Across the Color Line
• Sojourner Truth:
  A Life, a Symbol
• Standing at Armageddon
• The Narrative of Hosea Hudson
• Exodusters

Books Edited by Nell Painter

• Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, edited by Nell Painter
• Sojourner Truth's Narrative, edited by Nell Painter

Articles by Nell Painter

Reviews by Nell Painter