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Description:Theodore W. Allen's pioneering historical work "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race" was first published as a Hoboken Education Project pamphlet in 1975. Its bold and innovative main thesis -- that the "white race" was invented as a ruling class social control formation in response to labor unrest manifested in the latter (civil war) stages of Bacon's Rebellion (1676-77) -- opened the floodgates for an outpouring of subsequent studies on the "white race." The groundswell was such that by 1997 the Stanford University professor George M. Frederickson would assert "the proposition that race is 'a social and cultural construction,' has become an academic cliché." Allen, however, was not an academic; he was a class conscious, anti-white-supremacist, working class intellectual and activist, who had researched and written on the historical development of the "white race" for twenty-five years, and he was not comfortable with the proposition that Frederickson described. As he explained in his internet-published "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race" -- viewing "race as a social and cultural construction" has value in "objectifying 'whiteness,' as a historical rather than a biological category," but it is "an insufficient basis for refutation of white-supremacist apologetics." The apologetics, or arguments, that Allen had in mind were from those who would argue that such social constructs are somehow natural or genetically determined. He stressed that "the logic of 'race as a social construct' must be tightened and the focus sharpened" and "the 'white race' must be understood, not simply as a social construct (rather than a genetic phenomenon), but as a ruling class social control formation." This position is consistent with Allen's repeated efforts to challenge what he considered to be the two main arguments that undermine and disarm the struggle against white supremacy in the working class: 1. the argument that racism is innate, and 2. the argument that European-American workers benefit from racism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race. To get started finding Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 46

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Publisher: Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook

Release: 2006

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Description: Theodore W. Allen's pioneering historical work "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race" was first published as a Hoboken Education Project pamphlet in 1975. Its bold and innovative main thesis -- that the "white race" was invented as a ruling class social control formation in response to labor unrest manifested in the latter (civil war) stages of Bacon's Rebellion (1676-77) -- opened the floodgates for an outpouring of subsequent studies on the "white race." The groundswell was such that by 1997 the Stanford University professor George M. Frederickson would assert "the proposition that race is 'a social and cultural construction,' has become an academic cliché." Allen, however, was not an academic; he was a class conscious, anti-white-supremacist, working class intellectual and activist, who had researched and written on the historical development of the "white race" for twenty-five years, and he was not comfortable with the proposition that Frederickson described. As he explained in his internet-published "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race" -- viewing "race as a social and cultural construction" has value in "objectifying 'whiteness,' as a historical rather than a biological category," but it is "an insufficient basis for refutation of white-supremacist apologetics." The apologetics, or arguments, that Allen had in mind were from those who would argue that such social constructs are somehow natural or genetically determined. He stressed that "the logic of 'race as a social construct' must be tightened and the focus sharpened" and "the 'white race' must be understood, not simply as a social construct (rather than a genetic phenomenon), but as a ruling class social control formation." This position is consistent with Allen's repeated efforts to challenge what he considered to be the two main arguments that undermine and disarm the struggle against white supremacy in the working class: 1. the argument that racism is innate, and 2. the argument that European-American workers benefit from racism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race. To get started finding Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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