The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control / The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America by Theodore W. Allen

The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control / The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America

The Haymarket Series

Theodore W. Allen

736 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 creat...

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