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Part 1 - The book "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen presents a full-scale challenge to what Allen refers to as "The Great White Assumption" -- "the unquestioning, indeed unthinking acceptance of the 'white' identity of European-Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct." Its thesis on the origin and nature of the "white race" contains the root of a new and radical approach to United States history, one that challenges master narratives taught in the media and in schools, colleges, and universities. With its equalitarian motif and emphasis on class struggle it speaks to people today who strive for change worldwide.
"When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years." - Theodore W. Allen (Written after searching through 885 county-years of Virginia's colonial records)
Allen's book on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century's major contributions to historical understanding. This two-volume classic (Vol. 1: "Racial Oppression and Social Control" and Vol. 2: "The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America") details how the "white race" was invented as a ruling-class social control formation and a system of racial oppression was imposed in response to labor solidarity in the wake of Bacon's Rebellion (1676-77), how the "white race" was created and maintained through "white race" privileges conferred on laboring class European-Americans relative to African-Americans, how these privileges were not in the interest of African-Americans or laboring class European-Americans, and how the "white race" has been the principal historic guarantor of ruling-class domination in America. ( See a longer more detailed presentation - youtube.com/watch?v=2Gq77rOuZck )
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See Part 2 here
youtu.be/zB4p6bkyUSc
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P1 - The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W. Allen - Presented By Jeffrey B. Perry
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P2 - The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W. Allen - Presented By Jeffrey B. Perry
pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/31014/detail
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Jeffrey B. Perry contributed new introductions, back matter, internal study guides, and expanded indexes to Verso Books' new expanded edition of "The Invention of the White Race." See more -
jeffreybperry.net/_center__i__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_5__the_invention_of_the_br_white_116386.htm
For information on Dr. Perry and his work on Hubert Harrison "the father of Harlem radicalism" (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) see jeffreybperry.net
1) For comments by scholars and activists About “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918” jeffreybperry.net/disc.htm
2) For information by and about Hubert Harrison see
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___b_1__hubert_harrison___i_the_voice_of_76560.htm
3) For information by and about Theodore W. Allen
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_4__theodore_w__allen_br___font_size_86151.htm
4) For information on Hubert Harrison’s “When Africa Awakes: The ‘Inside Story’ of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World” see
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___b__8___i_when_africa_awakes__br__the__128069.htm
For the video “Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen, and the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy” see
youtu.be/FvLB_-Uygk8
For a video on Hubert Harrison the “Father Harlem Radicalism” and Founder of the “New Negro Movement” -- in 2016 see
youtu.be/5V9UEEqB5aM
For a 2014 video on Hubert Harrison see
youtu.be/heBKm1ytd5Q
For a 2016 video on “Hubert Harrison” see
youtu.be/szp7eumJ3U0
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Stella Winston interviews
youtu.be/EtS7yUyCsvU
youtu.be/7JYYnNzjJrU
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For the article “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights from Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy” by Jeffrey B. Perry, - the fullest treatment of the development of Allen’s thought,
see jeffreybperry.net (Top Left)
or see clogic.eserver.org/2010/2010.html
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Tags: Theodore W. Allen, White Race, Jeffrey B. Perry, White Supremacy, Class Struggle, Negro, Social Construct, Privilege, Racial Oppression, Social Control,
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Part 1 - The book "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen presents a full-scale challenge to what Allen refers to as "The Great White Assumption" -- "the unquestioning, indeed unthinking acceptance of the 'white' identity of European-Americans of all classes as a natural attribute rather than a social construct." Its thesis on the origin and nature of the "white race" contains the root of a new and radical approach to United States history, one that challenges master narratives taught in the media and in schools, colleges, and universities. With its equalitarian motif and emphasis on class struggle it speaks to people today who strive for change worldwide.
"When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years." - Theodore W. Allen (Written after searching through 885 county-years of Virginia's colonial records)
Allen's book on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-century's major contributions to historical understanding. This two-volume classic (Vol. 1: "Racial Oppression and Social Control" and Vol. 2: "The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America") details how the "white race" was invented as a ruling-class social control formation and a system of racial oppression was imposed in response to labor solidarity in the wake of Bacon's Rebellion (1676-77), how the "white race" was created and maintained through "white race" privileges conferred on laboring class European-Americans relative to African-Americans, how these privileges were not in the interest of African-Americans or laboring class European-Americans, and how the "white race" has been the principal historic guarantor of ruling-class domination in America. ( See a longer more detailed presentation - youtube.com/watch?v=2Gq77rOuZck )
--
See Part 2 here
youtu.be/zB4p6bkyUSc
--
Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film to your local community. Your station can download the film in TV broadcast format from PEGMedia.org .
This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast.
Stations that use Telvue, DVDs or other media can contact us for instructions.
--
These episodes are on PEGMedia - for public access TV stations
- in ready for TV broadcast formats - both HD and SD
P1 - The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W. Allen - Presented By Jeffrey B. Perry
pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/30987/detail
P2 - The Invention of the White Race - Theodore W. Allen - Presented By Jeffrey B. Perry
pegmedia.org/index.php?q=msvr/ep/31014/detail
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Jeffrey B. Perry contributed new introductions, back matter, internal study guides, and expanded indexes to Verso Books' new expanded edition of "The Invention of the White Race." See more -
jeffreybperry.net/_center__i__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_5__the_invention_of_the_br_white_116386.htm
For information on Dr. Perry and his work on Hubert Harrison "the father of Harlem radicalism" (1883-1927) and Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) see jeffreybperry.net
1) For comments by scholars and activists About “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918” jeffreybperry.net/disc.htm
2) For information by and about Hubert Harrison see
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___b_1__hubert_harrison___i_the_voice_of_76560.htm
3) For information by and about Theodore W. Allen
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__sepia___b_4__theodore_w__allen_br___font_size_86151.htm
4) For information on Hubert Harrison’s “When Africa Awakes: The ‘Inside Story’ of the Stirrings and Strivings of the New Negro in the Western World” see
jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_color__green___b__8___i_when_africa_awakes__br__the__128069.htm
For the video “Hubert Harrison, Theodore W. Allen, and the Centrality of the Struggle Against White Supremacy” see
youtu.be/FvLB_-Uygk8
For a video on Hubert Harrison the “Father Harlem Radicalism” and Founder of the “New Negro Movement” -- in 2016 see
youtu.be/5V9UEEqB5aM
For a 2014 video on Hubert Harrison see
youtu.be/heBKm1ytd5Q
For a 2016 video on “Hubert Harrison” see
youtu.be/szp7eumJ3U0
--
Stella Winston interviews
youtu.be/EtS7yUyCsvU
youtu.be/7JYYnNzjJrU
--
For the article “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights from Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy” by Jeffrey B. Perry, - the fullest treatment of the development of Allen’s thought,
see jeffreybperry.net (Top Left)
or see clogic.eserver.org/2010/2010.html
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Tags: Theodore W. Allen, White Race, Jeffrey B. Perry, White Supremacy, Class Struggle, Negro, Social Construct, Privilege, Racial Oppression, Social Control,
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