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PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-10086091660X
ISBN-139780860916604
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Book TitleInvention of the White Race : Racial Oppression and Social Control
Number of Pages310 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations
GenreSocial Science
AuthorTheodore W. Allen
Book SeriesHaymarket Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-036787
Reviews"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
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume NumberVol. 1
Volume NumberVol. 1
Dewey Decimal305.8/00973
Synopsis"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, When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the Negro in seventeenth-century Virginia and Maryland. However, as Theodore W. Allen argues in this magisterial work, what needs to be studied is the transformation of English, Scottish, Irish and other European colonists from their various statuses as servants, tenants, planters or merchants into a single new all-inclusive status: that of whites. This is the key to the paradox of American history, of a democracy resting on race assumptions. Volume One of this two-volume work attempts to escape the "white blind spot" which has distorted consecutive studies of the issue. It does so by looking in the mirror of Irish history for a definition of racial oppression and for an explanation of that phenomenon in terms of social control, free from the absurdities of classification by skin color. Compelling analogies are presented between the history of Anglo-Irish and British rule in Ireland and American White Supremacist oppression of Indians and African-Americans. But the relativity of race is shown in the sea change it entailed, whereby emigrating Irish haters of racial oppression were transformed into White Americans who defended it. The reasons for the differing outcomes of Catholic Emancipation and Negro Emancipation are considered and occasion is made to demonstrate Allen's distinction between racial and national oppression.
LC Classification NumberE185.A44 1994
