In 16 91, we have a definition of white and we have constructed race in what becomes the united states. It's important that we see this creation was for the upliftment of white people primarily to support the white people at the top. Poor and working class whites will get little. They will get just as much as is needed to insure their allegiance.
Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive – and strikingly cruel – laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today. By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.
Key sources for this episode:
The Racial Equity Institute
Ibram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People