Got my verso gift basket, but before that is The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne.
I'm just through the introduction, which is a quick recap of the creation of whiteness and white supremacy during the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the jockeying and slapfighting of various colonial powers in North America.
Update: the author takes the time to reinforce how being enslaved didn't propel the english to become empathetic towards their future captives. Also Queen Elizabeth I seems to have been seriously offended by the presence of black people in england, claiming that there are "already here to manie".
Got my verso gift basket, but before that is The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne.
I'm just through the introduction, which is a quick recap of the creation of whiteness and white supremacy during the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the jockeying and slapfighting of various colonial powers in North America.
Update: the author takes the time to reinforce how being enslaved didn't propel the english to become empathetic towards their future captives. Also Queen Elizabeth I seems to have been seriously offended by the presence of black people in england, claiming that there are "already here to manie".