Bacon's Rebellion and the Legal Formation of White People

Bacon's Rebellion and the Legal Formation of White People Brought to you by: DIGITALNOMICS - Walk Away Wealth Systems: How to Create Wealth Out of Thin Air Using Your Mind, Melanin and Smart Phone https://goo.gl/C30UXM ------------------ TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: The Historical Connection Between Bacon's Rebellion and the Legal Formation of White People Who were the 1% that created the 1861 antimiscegenation laws How bacon's rebellion played a historical role in the creation of “white” people in America America’s legal institution was based on the British systems most important value; property. Over people and moral ethics, the American and British legal system value property more than anything else. ABOUT DR. JACQUELINE BATTALORA Dr. Jacqueline Battalora is an attorney and professor of sociology and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. She is the author of the 2013 book “Birth of A White Nation: The Invention of White People and it's Relevance Today.” (http://goo.gl/q3eRCW). As an anti-racist writer, educator, and trainer, she teaches courses in law and society having received her Ph.D from Northwestern University where her research was shaped by an interest in the social forces that make deep human connections across race so difficult to sustain. Her graduate training includes: theology, social ethics, sociology, and law. Battalora’s approach to white awareness training is enhanced by employment experience that includes educator, corporate attorney, Chicago police officer, and coffeehouse co-owner. Her writings explore the enforcement of divisions between people specifically, the making of human difference in law. Dr. Battalora was born in Scotland and lived in Belgium for six years before her family relocated to Victoria, Texas. The experience of attending high school & middle school in Texas formed her understanding of race in America. Dr. Battalora speaks widely on the topic of the invention of white people in law and has been conducting white awareness & anti-racist training sessions since the mid 1990s. She has trained teachers as well as lawyers, judges, activists, corporate and law enforcement officials on the legal historical record of white privilege and its implications for work conducted today. LINKS: http://ift.tt/1WcufTN http://ift.tt/1q2vIxp RELATED: Saint Xavier University Students Challenge Institutionalized White Supremacy https://goo.gl/fV7W9V Birth of a White Supremacist Nation with Dr. Jacqueline Battalora https://goo.gl/HAzcD2 Epigenetics of Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence and Memory in African American History - https://goo.gl/cf0Hpa