The making of American Whiteness : the formation of race in seventeenth-century Virginia / Carmen P. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Carmen P.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Philosophy of Race Ser.

Philosophy of Race Ser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White people--Virginia--History--17th century.

White people.

African Americans--Virginia--History--17th century.

African Americans.

Slavery--Virginia--History--17th century.

Slavery.

White people--Race identity--Virginia--History--17th century.

Race relations.

White people--Race identity.

Virginia--Race relations--History--17th century.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (132 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The International System of Slavery and the Formation of American Whiteness

Duty Boys, Company Tenants, Slaveholding Ladies and Wealthy Planters: How the International System of Slavery Made European Emigrants White, 1619-1650

From Slave Pen to Plantation: The Making of American Whiteness in the Built Environment, 1618-1634

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3443-3

1-66692-322-2

OCLC:

1351201078