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The Invention of the White Race The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (Invention of the White Race) Paperback - 1997

by Theodore W. Allen

Continuing his acclaimed societal study, scholar Theodore Allen explores how the degradation of African bond-laborers into slaves produced, for the first time in Anglo-America, racism based on color differences. Citing the famous Bacon's Rebellion, Allen suggests that by giving poor white laborers privilege due to their skin color, the plantation bourgeoisie "invented the white race" as an institution, with repercussions to the present.


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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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  • Title The Invention of the White Race The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (Invention of the White Race)
  • Author Theodore W. Allen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Language EN
  • Publisher Verso, London
  • Date August 1997
  • ISBN 9781859840764
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American

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“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)

About the author

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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