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Yes, there are equivalents but these aren't necessarily exact equivalents. Ted Allen formulated this perspective based on a close study of the evolution of an idea of race in the early Caribbean. I think there was one chapter in his two-volume history of the white race on the mainland of North America. Ideas of race--and the rigidity of those ideas--are going to develop differently in a slaveholding system with 95% of the population racially enslaved and a system with a much smaller fraction. In particular, the 5% of the "whites" in that former system are going to be much more uniformly involved with maintaining and benefiting from the system--and have a much more uniform concept of "whiteness"--than states in which most whites have no similar connection to and commitment to the institution. The latter obviously permits a much wider spectrum of views on race among those whites. As far as that goes, can anyone really expect that the practices and attitudes about race that prevailed in South Carolina are going to work the same way in Kentucky, much less in Vermont? Then, too, the matter becomes even more complicated by the presence on the mainland of large and internally diverse groups of native peoples, with Chicanos and Californios as well (and later, Chinese). ML _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
