Jeffrey B. Perry

"Position Weakened" by Theodore W. Allen

“ . . . their (the poor “whites”) own position, vis–a-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin privilege system.”

Theodore W. Allen
Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race
(Hoboken, 1975; Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook, 2006)

Ed. and Intro by Jeffrey B. Perry
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Position Weakened

“ . . . their (the poor “whites”) own position, vis–a-vis the rich and powerful . . . was not improved, but weakened, by the white-skin privilege system.”
Theodore W. Allen
Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery:
The Invention of the White Race, 1975