The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology The book opens with a

The book opens with a 1968 interview in which Althusser discusses his personal

Marc Blecher

Strange Weather is a manifesto which calls on cultural critics to abandon their technophobia and contribute to the debates which shape our future

among them Umberto Eco

Nine thousand arrests

The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology The book opens with aWhen 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