{"title":"Theodore W Allen","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheodore W Allen's works explore the origins and social construction of race, challenging conventional narratives with rigorous analysis. His writing delves into the historical foundations of racial identity, examining how race has been used to structure power and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in social theory and critical studies will find Allen's scholarship thought-provoking and essential. His contributions offer valuable perspectives for understanding the complex dynamics of race in historical and contemporary contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-invention-of-the-white-race-by-theodore-w-allen-9781839763922","title":"The Invention of the White Race","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the White Race\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, and that fact has been central to maintaining ruling-class domination over ordinary working people of all colours throughout American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince publication in the mid-nineties, \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the White Race\u003c\/em\u003e has become indispensable in debates on the origins of racial oppression in America. Finally, Verso has brought both volumes together in one seminal text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheodore W. Allen (1919–2005) was an anti–white supremacist, working-class intellectual and activist who began his pioneering work on ‘white skin privilege’ and ‘white race’ privileges in 1965. He co-authored the influential \u003cem\u003eWhite Blindspot\u003c\/em\u003e, authored \u003cem\u003eCan White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized?\u003c\/em\u003e, and wrote the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eClass Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e before publication of his seminal two-volume classic \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the White Race\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599489089772,"sku":"9781839763922","price":70.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/826536096c34c8539dc8a37aa42b2b8e.jpg?v=1778037328"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/theodore-w-allen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}