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  2. Theodore W. Allen - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Whiteness studies - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The sociologists Philip Q. Yang and Kavitha Koshy have also questioned what they call the "becoming white thesis", noting that Irish Americans have been legally classified as white since the first US census in 1790, that Irish Americans were legally white for the purposes of the Naturalization Act of 1790 that limited citizenship to "free White ...

  5. White people - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Sindhis - Wikipedia

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    All political, social and religious organizations of Sindh, besides the Sindh Culture Department and administrations of various schools, colleges and universities, organize a variety of events including seminars, debates, folk music programs, drama and theatric performances, tableaus and literary sittings to mark this annual festivity. [202]

  7. David Roediger - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Yakub (Nation of Islam) - Wikipedia

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    As a group of people distinct from the Original Asiatic Race, the white race are bereft of divinity, [12] being intrinsically prone to lying, violence, and brutality. [13] According to the Nation's teachings, Yakub's newly created white race sowed discord among the black race, and thus were exiled to live in the caves of Europe ("West Asia"). [14]

  9. Whiteness theory - Wikipedia

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    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.