in 1619 in Virginia, there was no such thing as a white person. As far as the law is concerned, white people as a race didn’t exist until 1681, when colonial American lawmakers sought to outlaw marriages between European people and others. Before that, people were known by their nation of origin, what we might now refer to as nationality or ethnicity. Anti-miscegenation laws, the laws prohibiting Europeans from marrying (and having children with) people of African descent, forged the white race. Let’s think about what this means: race was a political creation, an economic creation
Secure economic power via sugarcane harvesting abd enslavement of people, ensure power of class via law implementation. But then if invented could also be unlearned
