When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixt
A comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South—and how it shaped our modern world. “A mu
"A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US histo
This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it fl