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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
August 1, 1997
Pages
372
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781859849811
ISBN-10
1859849814
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.75 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$65.00
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no âwhiteâ 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 European colonists from their various statuses as servants, tenants, planters or merchants into a single new all-inclusive status: that of whites. This is the key to the paradox of American history, of a democracy resting on race assumptions.
Volume One of this two-volume work attempts to escape the âwhite blind spotâ which has distorted consecutive studies of the issue. It does so by looking in the mirror of Irish history for a definition of racial oppression and for an explanation of that phenomenon in terms of social control, free from the absurdities of classification by skin color. Compelling analogies are presented between the history of Anglo-Irish and British rule in Ireland and American White Supremacist oppression of Indians and African-Americans. But the relativity of race is shown in the sea change it entailed, whereby emigrating Irish haters of racial oppression were transformed into White Americans who defended it. The reasons for the differing outcomes of Catholic Emancipation and Negro Emancipation are considered and occasion is made to demonstrate Allenâs distinction between racial and national oppression.
Volume One of this two-volume work attempts to escape the âwhite blind spotâ which has distorted consecutive studies of the issue. It does so by looking in the mirror of Irish history for a definition of racial oppression and for an explanation of that phenomenon in terms of social control, free from the absurdities of classification by skin color. Compelling analogies are presented between the history of Anglo-Irish and British rule in Ireland and American White Supremacist oppression of Indians and African-Americans. But the relativity of race is shown in the sea change it entailed, whereby emigrating Irish haters of racial oppression were transformed into White Americans who defended it. The reasons for the differing outcomes of Catholic Emancipation and Negro Emancipation are considered and occasion is made to demonstrate Allenâs distinction between racial and national oppression.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Verso Books (August 1, 1997)
9781859849811 | details & prices | 372 pages | 6.75 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.75 lbs | List price $65.00
About: When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no âwhiteâ people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.
About: When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no âwhiteâ people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.
Paperback
With Jeffrey B. Perry (other contributor) |
2 edition from Verso Books (November 20, 2012)
9781844677702 | details & prices | 410 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.52 lbs | List price $29.95
from Verso Books (August 1, 1997)
9781859840764 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $34.95
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