Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America
"Volume one: racial oppression and social control, second edition published by Verso 2012, first published by Verso 1994 ... volume two: the origin of racial oppression in Anglo-America, second edition published by Verso 2012, first published by Verso 1997"--Title page verso.
When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no‘white’ people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would therebe for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, TheInvention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of howAmerica’s ruling classes created the category of the ‘white race’ as ameans of social control. Since that early invention, white privilegeshave enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that fact has beencentral to maintaining ruling-class domination over ordinary workingpeople of all colors throughout American history.Since publication in the mid-nineties, The Invention of the WhiteRace has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racialoppression in America. Finally Verso has brought both volumestogather in one seminal text.Theodore W. Allen (1919–2005) was an anti–white supremacist,working-class intellectual and activist who began his pioneeringwork on ‘white skin privilege’ and ‘white race’ privileges in 1965. Heco-authored the influential White Blindspot, authored Can WhiteWorkers Radicals Be Radicalized?, and wrote the groundbreakingClass Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery before publication ofhis seminal two-volume classic 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, University of Missouri”
A meticulous study. -- Akala
Seminal -- Emma Dabiri
Theodore W. Allen (1919–2005) was an anti–white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist who began his pioneering work on 'white skin privilege' and 'white race' privilege in 1965. He co-authored the influential White Blindspot, authored Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized? , and wrote the ground-breaking Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slaver before publication of his seminal two-volume classic The Invention of the White Race.
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