Discuss some quotes from a Birth of a White Nation by Jacqueline Battalora.

One quote that basically sets the agenda for the book is found in the introduction. There, Battalora writes, "In spite of this common experience of 'race,' we should begin by realizing that white people, as a designation of a group of humanity, much less as a race, never existed until late in the seventeenth century." In other words, what people tend to view as a permanent, biological category related to skin color and other racial characteristics is actually a social construct, and it is one developed relatively recently in history. Battalora goes on to explain that "whiteness" was invented in the context of colonial development in seventeenth-century North America, particularly in the tobacco-growing colonies of the Chesapeake. It developed alongside "blackness," which, among other things, came to be associated with enslavement.
On the other hand, Battalora wants to be sure that her readers do not construe from this that race is not a meaningful historical and modern phenomenon. "While white people are clearly a fiction," she writes, "the organization of society and relationships that the fiction structured are very real and have resulted in consequences that have provided white people material and symbolic resources throughout U.S. history." In other words, "whiteness" was not constructed by accident. It was integral to political and economic power at various points in the nation's history, and it remains so today. In fact, "whiteness" as a racial construct was a consequence of the development of whiteness as a political ideal, not a cause. As Battalora argues in chapter five, it was an ideology used in service of wealthy capitalists and political elites.
These two quotes fairly neatly encapsulate the arguments advanced in Birth of a White Nation.
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