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Allen emphasized that the "invention of the white race" was related to class struggle and to ruling class efforts to maintain social control. [ 2 ] Allen published outside the academic press and his work was highly influential, at a time of the civil rights movement , when issues of race, ethnicity and culture were being studied and overturned.
Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, [1] the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, [2] and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by the societal compositions, perceptions and group behaviors of white people. [3]
The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieved greater acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and social status in the European colonies.
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The legal and social strictures that define White Americans, and distinguish them from persons who are not considered white by the government and society, have varied throughout the history of the United States. Race is defined as a social and political category within society based on hierarchy. [1]
Whiteness theory is a field within whiteness studies concerned with what white identity means in terms of social, political, racial, economic, culture, etc. [1] Whiteness theory posits that if some Western societies make whiteness central to their respective national and cultural identities, their white populations may become blind to the privilege associated with White identity.
Theodore W. Allen's "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race" (1975), [3] a pamphlet that later was expanded into his seminal two-volume work The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control (1994, 2012) and [4] The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 2: "The Origin of Racial ...
The author says the idea of race is not just a matter of biology but also includes "concepts of labor, gender, class, and images of personal beauty". [1] The earliest European societies, including the Greeks and Romans, had no concept of race and classified people by ethnicity and social class, with the lowest class being slaves. [1]