Invention of the White Race, Volume 1 Racial Oppression and Social Control

Name: Invention of the White Race, Volume 1 Racial Oppression and Social Control
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ISBN: 9781844677696

ISBN-10: 1844677699

ISBN-13: 9781844677696

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Theodore W. Allen, Jeffrey B. Perry

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When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no âwhiteâ 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 âwhite raceâ by the ruling class as a method of social control, in response to labor unrest precipitated by Baconâs 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 entire working class.Since publication in the mid-nineties, Invention has become…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.20" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent scholar and author of the first critical biography of Harrison.