White Victimhood: The Deep History

When, where, and why did the fiction that white people suffer because they have white skin color become powerful and persuasive? Professor Tamika Nunley will engage author and fellow Duke historian Gunther Peck in a conversation about his recent book Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood, 1619-1819 as well as his more recent research on youth voting rights and contemporary expressions of white racial victimhood in North Carolina.