Theodore W. Allen on Two Main Ideological Props of White Supremacy Among Euro-American Workers youtu.be/tdT-Tcr6bh4 Theodore W. Allen (1919-2005) pioneered his “white skin privilege” analysis in 1965, co-authored White Blindspot in 1967 and authored the accompanying “Can White Workers/Radicals Be Radicalized?’” in 1969, wrote the ground-breaking “Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race” in 1974/1975, wrote the seminal two-volume The Invention of the White Race in 1994 and 1997 (since reprinted in new expanded form in 2012 by Verso Books) , and authored a number of other extremely important published and unpublished pieces. His The Invention of the White Race, with its focus on racial oppression and social control, is one of the twentieth-centurys major contributions to historical understanding. This two-volume classic (Vol. 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control and Vol. 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America) details how the white race was invented as a ruling-class social control formation and a system of racial oppression was imposed in response to labor solidarity in the wake of Bacons Rebellion (1676-77), how the white race was created and maintained through white race privileges conferred on laboring class European-Americans relative to African-Americans, how these privileges were not in the interest of African-Americans or laboring class European-Americans, and how the white race has been the principal historic guarantor of ruling-class domination in America. This brief video discusses how Allen’s work challenges two main ideological props of white supremacy among European-American workers -- the argument that racism is innate and the argument that European-American workers benefit from white supremacism and white privileges (Allen argues that the race privileges are a poison bait, like a shot of heroin, and that the race privileges are ruinous to the interests of African Americans and of European-American workers. As he argues – “An Injury to One is an Injury to All! Solidarity Forever, Means Privileges Never! The article “The Developing Conjuncture and Some Insights from Hubert Harrison and Theodore W. Allen on the Centrality of the Fight Against White Supremacy” by Jeffrey B. Perry offers the fullest treatment of the development of his thought and discusses this subject. See the article at jeffreybperry.net (at top left) or see it at clogic.eserver.org/2010/2010.html For a longer Slide Presentation/Talk on Theodore W. Allen’s “The Invention of the White Race” at the Brecht Forum in New York City on January 31, 2013, see youtu.be/2Gq77rOuZck For information on Theodore W. Allen see jeffreybperry.net/_center__font_size__3__font_co… and see jeffreybperry.net/_center__i__font_size__3__font… For information on Jeffrey B. Perry see jeffreybperry.net This segment was videoed on January 31, 2013, by Fred Nguyen of Fan Smiles.
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