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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.
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9781859849811 | Verso Books, August 1, 1997, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9781844677702 | 2 edition (Verso Books, November 20, 2012), cover price $29.95
9781859840764 | Verso Books, August 1, 1997, cover price $34.95
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.
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9780860914808 | Verso Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9781844677696 | 2 edition (Verso Books, November 20, 2012), cover price $29.95
9780860916604 | Verso Books, February 1, 1994, cover price $22.00
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9780674059672 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 15, 2012, cover price $44.00
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9781609801342 | Reprint edition (Seven Stories Pr, June 14, 2011), cover price $14.95
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9780804772181 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 7, 2011, cover price $75.00
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9780804772198 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 7, 2011, cover price $24.95
Product Description: The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States. These concepts became integral parts of American society through social, psychological, and political decisions, which are documented so readers can learn about the origin of myths and stereotypes that have created schisms in our society from its founding to the present day...read more
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9781610480055 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, February 16, 2011, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.
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9781610480062 | Rowman & Littlefield Education, February 16, 2011, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: The Myth of Post-Racial America provides a history of race and racism in the United States.
Product Description: Chambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws...read more
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9781593324100 | Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, December 15, 2010, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Chambers's hypothesis is that an historical analysis of the Congressional discussions surrounding the opium laws in the late 1800's and early 1900's, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 will illustrate that competition and threat, economic and/or political, were present prior to the enactment of the laws.
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9780741461780 | Infinity Pub, November 19, 2010, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: There is no short description for this title.
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9781420502282 | 1 edition (Lucent Books, October 22, 2010), cover price $39.40 | About this edition: Examines the issues surrounding racism and provides an overview of the topic.
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9780263124842 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 1, 1991), cover price $16.95 | also contains Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
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9780373114184 | Harlequin Books, December 1, 1991, cover price $2.79 | About this edition: Used, book, fiction
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9781439900512 | Temple Univ Pr, June 28, 2010, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United States
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9781439900529 | Temple Univ Pr, June 28, 2010, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: An extensive critique of the structures of whiteness and how they produce racism in the United States
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives. The discussion ranges over a wide theoretical landscape, bringing to bear the insights of Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and others to the dilemmas represented by the continuing social practice of race. The book lays the theoretical foundation for a politics of critical race practice, it provides insight into why we have sought the legal and formal institutional solutions to racism that have developed since the 1960s, and then describes why these are inadequate to addressing the new practices of racism in society. The work seeks to leave the reader with a sense of possibility, not pessimism; and demonstrates how specific arguments about racial subjection may allow for changing how we live and thereby improve the impact race continues to have in our lives. By developing a new way to critically study how race persists in dominating society, the book provides readers with an understanding of how race is socially constructed today, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of political theory, American politics and race & ethnic politics
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9780415780544, titled "The Everyday Practice of Race in America: Ambiguous Privilege" | 1 edition (Routledge, June 2, 2010), cover price $150.00
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9780415780551, titled "The Everyday Practice of Race in America: Ambiguous Privilege" | Routledge, June 2, 2010, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.
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9780321019608 | Addison-Wesley, January 1, 1998, cover price $11.60 | also contains Tightrope: A Racial Journey to the Age of Obama
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9780028609164 | Frommer, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | also contains Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism | About this edition: Explores inexpensive lodging, dining, and shopping in Italy
9780028609164 | Frommer, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | also contains Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism | About this edition: Explores inexpensive lodging, dining, and shopping in Italy
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9780028610566 | 2nd edition (Macmillan General Reference, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | also contains Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism | About this edition: Describes the most popular clerical positions, explains eligibility requirements, and includes practice exams
9780028610566 | 2nd edition (Macmillan General Reference, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | also contains Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism | About this edition: Describes the most popular clerical positions, explains eligibility requirements, and includes practice exams
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9780870497193 | 1 edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 1, 1991), cover price $42.50 | About this edition: Great historical book for research, study, or review!
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9780028609164, titled "Frommer''s 98 Italy from $50 a Day" | Frommer, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | also contains Frommer''s 98 Italy from $50 a Day | About this edition: Explores inexpensive lodging, dining, and shopping in Italy
9780028610566, titled "Clerical Exams Handbook" | 2nd edition (Macmillan General Reference, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | also contains Clerical Exams Handbook | About this edition: Describes the most popular clerical positions, explains eligibility requirements, and includes practice exams
9780870497209 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Racism in Politics and American Feminism in America.
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9780889466821 | Edwin Mellen Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $269.90 | About this edition: This volume examines certain 19th-century ethicists' commitment to solving the problems of slavery and racism by shipping the American-born black population back to Africa.
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9780820405704 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 1988, cover price $75.95
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