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Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Thompson, Carmen P.

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Series: Philosophy of Race

PhilosophyBlack American HistoryColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 1666923230
ISBN13: 9781666923230
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 5 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the Americas as evidenced in their participation in the transatlantic slave trade since the fifteenth century, but more importantly that it was the principal dynamic in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony in what would become the United States of America. And just as the system of White supremacy was the principal framework that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, it likewise was the framework that drove the organization of civil society in Virginia, including the organization and structure of the colony's laws, social, political, and economic policies as well as its system of governance. The book shows what Whiteness looked like in everyday life in the early seventeenth century, in a way eerily prescient to Whiteness today.

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