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The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control Paperback - 1994

by Theodore W. Allen


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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: Racial Oppression and Social Control
  • Author Theodore W. Allen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 310
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994-03-17
  • ISBN 9780860916604 / 086091660X
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.06 x 0.93 in (23.47 x 15.39 x 2.36 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Slavery - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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“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

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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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