The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Strange Weather is a manifesto

Strange Weather is a manifesto which calls on cultural critics to abandon their technophobia and contribute to the debates which shape our future

In this crisp and forensic book

the trope of crisis has proven to be one of the most effective instruments of social discipline and administration

Marc Blecher

The Invention of the White Race subject-anthropology-sociology Strange Weather is a manifestoWhen the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. Historical debate about the origin of racial slavery has focused on the status of the Negro in seventeenth century Virginia and Maryland. However, as Theodore W. Allen argues in this magisterial work, what needs to be studied is the transformation of English, Scottish, Irish and other