The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Marc Blecher

Marc Blecher

With a new Introduction by Perry Anderson

”—Ernst Fischer

Nine thousand arrests

Together they highlight the contradictions in the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different historical periods

The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Marc BlecherWhen the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the Negro in seventeenth century Virginia and Maryland. However, as Theodore W. Allen argues in this magisterial work, what needs to be studied is the transformation of English, Scottish, Irish and other