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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control Theodore W. Allen
Publisher: Verso Books

Oct 14, 2013 - Labels: Jay Smooth Little Hater NewBlackMan (in Exile) Octavia Butler Pharoahe Monch. Simply put, as Black men we cannot afford to turn away from the very sense of a shared fate that has been vital to our quest for racial equality across the course of American history. 2 (Spring 2007) Even as feminist analyses have contributed in important ways to discussions of how gender is raced and race is gendered, there has been little in the way of comparative analysis of the specific mechanisms… “productiveness” over “repressiveness,” the possibilities of “resistance” over “determination,” fails to describe the operation of “power”—in the more conventional, encompassing sense—with respect to the history of racist oppression. Jan 4, 2011 - According to Theodore Allen, the knowledge, ideologies, norms, and practices of whiteness and the accompanying "white race" were invented in the U.S. The history of how the English colonial masters created and institutionalized white supremacy in their colonies in the Americas is brilliantly documented in detail in Theodore Allen's two volume work, “The Invention of the White Race. Aug 23, 2013 - The culturalization of politics is elaborated by relating it to the displacement of the political that originated with the nineteenth-century ascendance of race, thus setting 'post-racialism' firmly within the history of modern racism. Girls Like Me men and boys of color. The essays by Ignatiev and Allen can be found here at this website in a pdf. David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness -- a psycho-cultural investigation of the development of "white" identity among European-American workers in the North during the ante-bellum period -- was originally published in .. Because all whites gain from .. Letter of 200 Concerned Black Men Calling for the Inclusion of Women and Girls to the President's “My Brother's Keeper” Initiative. Oct 30, 2013 - Fundamentally, the idea is that racism is inevitable under capitalism because all whites, no matter their class, benefit from the unequal distribution of social resources along racial lines. Until the late 19th century, there was hardly a major battle Race is a social construct: the “white race” and “red race,” etc., are all inventions of the 18th century which only have as much reality as people invest in them. White supremacy is at its root Black oppression. Mar 27, 2012 - In essence, theories of white privilege assert that discourses on racial inequality do not truly discuss differences between white and non-white social status, but only discuss the failure of non-white groups to achieve normal social period with his ground-breaking “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” in 1974/1975 , which ultimately grew into his seminal two-volume “The Invention of the White Race” in 1994 and 1997. As part of a system of racial oppression designed to solve a . Faced with the problem of how to maintain social control, the small ruling elite searched for a way to defuse the potential for rebellion insofar as possible and to create a class that would support the elite and help suppress rebellion should it occur. Allen later went on to write The Invention of the White Race, in two volumes, and became a critic of "white skin privilege" analysis. He also gives a footnote mention47 to a pamphlet, Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (although he does not quote it), which in its summary says: [o]f far greater significance is the man in control. Jan 20, 2014 - Just because a person experiences oppression or prejudice on account of his/her ethnic, religious, racial, gender or sexual identity does not make him/her an ally for other oppressed people. Dec 12, 2011 - And this notion has its origins in and is sustained by racist practices and structures that confine people of color to a subordinate status relative to white people in nearly every area of life.