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

Thompson, Carmen P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1666923230 ISBN 13 : 9781666923230

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2025

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carmen P. Thompson is a historian and independent scholar.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1666923230
• ISBN 13: 9781666923230
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible