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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1 keyword-antonio-gramsci Night of the Golden ButterflyWhen the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no white people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal two volume work, The Invention of the White Race, Theodore W. Allen tells the story of how Americas ruling classes created the category of the white race as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority,