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

The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.

List of contents

Chapter One: The International System of Slavery and the Formation of American Whiteness
Chapter Two: Duty Boys, Company Tenants, Slaveholding Ladies and Wealthy Planters: How the International System of Slavery Made European Emigrants White, 1619-1650
Chapter Three: From Slave Pen to Plantation: The Making of American Whiteness in the Built Environment, 1618-1634
Chapter Four: From Freedom Suits to Fictive Kin: African Resistance to White Supremacy in Colonial Virginia, 1619-1660
Conclusion: The International System of Slavery and the Making of American Whiteness

About the author

Carmen P. Thompson

Product details

• Authors: Carmen P. Thompson
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2022
• EAN: 9781666923216
• ISBN: 978-1-6669-2321-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Social & political philosophy, United States of America, USA, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, C 1600 To C 1700, Black & Asian Studies, HISTORY / African American & Black, USA: Colonization and Settlement ( c 1600 to c 1775)