A comprehensive, tour-de-force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South—and how it shaped our modern world. “A mu

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixt

"A monumental study of the birth of racism in the American South which makes truly new and convincing points about one of the most critical problems in US histo

This sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that 'race' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been

In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama em