[act-ma] 6/9 JEFFREY PERRY - "The Invention of the White Race"

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THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF BOSTON
SUNDAY SPEAKERS FORUM presents...

Sunday, June 9, 2013
11:00am

Dr. JEFFERY PERRY
"The Invention of the White Race"

Theodore W. Allen's two-volume The Invention of the White Race presents a
full-scale challenge to what Allen refers to as "The Great White
Assumption" - "the unquestioning, indeed unthinking acceptance of the 'white
' identity of European-Americans of all classes as a natural attribute
rather than a social construct." Its thesis -- that the "white race" was
invented in late 17th-early 18th century Virginia and Maryland as a ruling
class social control formation in response to labor solidarity -- contains
the root of a new and radical approach to United States history, one that
challenges master narratives taught in the media and in schools, colleges,
and universities. With its equalitarian motif and emphasis on class struggle
it speaks to people today who strive for change worldwide.

Jeffrey Perry is an independent, working class scholar and author of Hubert
Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Columbia University
Press). He is also the Treasurer of Local 300, National Postal Mail Handlers
Union.

Music by Aristides Rias & Ben Schwendener


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LINDA JENKINS
"Wrapping Up and Looking Forward"


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