# The Invention of the White Race

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- Book: [The Invention of the White Race](https://www.bookquiver.com/theodore-w-allen/the-invention-of-the-white-race) ([The Invention of the White Race.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/theodore-w-allen/the-invention-of-the-white-race.md))
- Authors: [Theodore W. Allen](https://www.bookquiver.com/theodore-w-allen), [Jeffrey B. Perry](https://www.bookquiver.com/jeffrey-b-perry)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4467-771-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-11-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Invention of the White Race is a groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America. When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people, nor, according...