Bedford/St. Martin textbook company declares war on White history

The man on the cover is Juan de Pareja. He was the Mulatto son of a slave girl who worked for the famous Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. The only reason this man’s name was recorded in history or his likeness painted, was because he swept the floor in Diego Velázquez’s workshop.
Rather than choose from the multitudes of famous people from Western society, Bedford/St. Martin choose a 17th century Mulatto janitor to grace the cover of a 1,050 page textbook on Western society.

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