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The Invention of the White Race

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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, The Invention of the White Race, 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. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677696
SKU
V9781844677696
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About Theodore W. Allen
THEODORE W. ALLEN was an independent scholar, coalminer, mailhandler, engineering draftsman, teacher and librarian.

Reviews for The Invention of the White Race
A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US history ... a highly original and seminal work. - David Roediger A powerful and polemical study. - Times Literary Supplement In a masterful two-volume work, Theodore Allen transforms ... Read more

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