{"id":44451,"date":"2015-12-05T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44451"},"modified":"2015-12-06T03:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T03:42:49","slug":"the-invention-of-the-white-race-volume-1-racial-oppression-and-social-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44451","title":{"rendered":"The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1039-the-invention-of-the-white-race-volume-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\" target=\"_blank\">Verso Books<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997)<br \/>\n372 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9781844677696<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 9781844678433<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodore_W._Allen\" target=\"_blank\">Theodore W. Allen<\/a> (1919-2005)<\/strong><br \/>\nIntroduction and notes by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreybperry.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey B. Perry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1039-the-invention-of-the-white-race-volume-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/versobooks-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/000001\/376\/9781844677696_Invention_white_race_1-bb962d10381beb29916983da84405fd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the first Africans arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia<\/a> in 1619, there were no \u201cwhite\u201d people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two-volume work, <em>The Invention of the White Race<\/em>, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America\u2019s ruling classes created the category of the \u201cwhite race\u201d as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that fact has been central to maintaining ruling-class domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout American history.<\/p>\n<p>Volume I draws lessons from Irish history, comparing British rule in Ireland with the \u201cwhite\u201d oppression of Native Americans and African Americans. Allen details how Irish immigrants fleeing persecution learned to spread racial oppression in their adoptive country as part of white America.<\/p>\n<p>Since publication in the mid-nineties, <em>The Invention of the White Race<\/em> has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. In this updated edition, scholar Jeffrey B. Perry provides a new introduction, a short biography of the author and a study guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Verso Books November 2012 (Originally published in August, 1997) 372 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781844677696 Ebook ISBN: 9781844678433 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) Introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. 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