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__The Invention of the White Race__ is a groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people, nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In his seminal two-volume work, Theodore W. Allen details the creation of the “white race” by the ruling class as a method of social control in response to labor unrest precipitated by Bacon’s Rebellion. By distinguishing European Americans from African Americans within the laboring class, white privileges enforced the myth of the white race through the years and has been central to maintaining ruling-class domination over the entire working class. Since its publication in the midnineties, __The Invention of the White Race__ has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. Volume One examines Irish history to show the relativity of race and racial oppression as a form of social control. Volume Two details the development of racial oppression and racial slavery in colonial Virginia and, more broadly, Anglo-America. An introduction by Jeffrey B. Perry discusses Allen’s contributions, critical re

Who reads The Invention of the White Race (volume 2)?

Author

Theodore W. Allen

Publisher

Verso; Second Edition, Two-book shrinkwrapped set

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844677702

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities