Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jun 27, 2021 9:20:26 GMT
In volume two Allen relies on the primary sources to show how the “white race” was invented as a bourgeois social control formation by the planter bourgeoisie in the latter part of the 17th century. The 'white race' as described by Allen was based on a series of racial privileges first put in place in the latter third of the 17th century by the Planter bourgeoisie to divide and control a rebellious agrarian proletariat composed of European-American and African-American laborers in the Chesapeake Bay colonies of Virginia and Maryland. The character of these privileges laid the basis for the “white identity” that altered the class stand but not the class position of the European-American laborers (both bond and free), who were officially now defined as “white” through a series of laws passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1705 and 1724. Allen finds no mention of the term “white” used in reference to European-Americans in any legal statute or court papers until 1691. indypendent.org/2015/01/the-white-race-was-invented-heres-how-it-happened/
In other words, race was invented to help keep Euro-American wages low and African Americans enslaved by the "white" people who benefited economically from this arrangement. Someday I hope you guys figure this out.