Invention of the White Race, Volume 1

When 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. In this seminal two-volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how America''s ruling classes created the category of the "white race" as a means of social control. Since that early invention, whi...