Birth of a White Nation
eBook - ePub

Birth of a White Nation

The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Birth of a White Nation

The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

About this book

Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people. Surveying colonial North American law and history, the book interrogates the origins of racial inequality and injustice in American society, and details how the invention still serves to protect the ruling elite to the present day.

This second edition documents the proliferation of ideas imposed and claimed throughout history that have conspired to give content, form, and social meaning to one's racial classification. Beginning its expanded narrative with the development of diverse Native American societies through contact with European colonizers in the Tidewater region, and progressing to the emigration of Mexicans, Irish, and other "non-whites", this new edition addresses the ongoing production and reproduction of whiteness as a distinct and dominant social category. It also looks to the future by developing a new, applied framework for countering racial inequality and promoting greater awareness of anti-racist policies and practices.

Birth of a White Nation will be of great interest to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to make sense of the dramatic racial inequities of our time and to forge an antiracist path forward.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction Birth of a White Nation
  10. 1. Before the Invention of White People
  11. 2. White People The Creation
  12. 3. How “Whites” Became a Success
  13. 4. The Americanization of Whites
  14. 5. Contingent Whites and Inbetween People Mexicans and Irish in the U.S.
  15. 6. Whiteness
  16. 7. Deconstructing Whiteness
  17. Afterword Why Would Whites Work to Dismantle Whiteness?
  18. Index