The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2 by Theodore W Allen

The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2 by Theodore W Allen

This second of two volumes explores how the degradation of African bond-labourers into slaves produced, for the first time in Anglo-America, racism based on colour differences. It traces the historical roots of the white supremacism that led European-American workers to oppose Abolitionism.

A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South.. a highly original and seminal work. -- David Roediger, University of Minnesota (in praise of Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control)
A path-breaking work. -- Noel Ignatiev * Journal of Social History (in praise of Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control) *
A powerful and polemical study. * Times Literary Supplement (in praise of Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control) *

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 (1967), authored "Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized?" (1969), and wrote the ground-breaking Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (1975) before publication of his seminal two-volume classic The Invention of the White Race (1994, 1997).

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ISBN 13	9781859840764
ISBN 10	1859840760
Title	The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2
Author	Theodore W Allen
Series	Haymarket
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	1997-08-17
Number of pages	386
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