The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Together they highlight the contradictions

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The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Together they highlight the contradictionsWhen 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