The possessive investment in whiteness : how white people profit from identity politics /

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George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advant...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lipsitz, George (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Racism > United States.
Prejudices > United States.
Identity politics > United States.
White people > Race identity > United States.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Préjugés > États-Unis.
Politique identitaire > États-Unis.
Identity politics
Prejudices
Racism
White people > Race identity
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The changing same : introduction to the twentieth anniversary edition
  • Bill Moore's body
  • The possessive investment in whiteness
  • Law and order : civil rights laws and white privilege
  • Immigrant labor and identity politics
  • Whiteness and war
  • How whiteness works : inheritance, wealth, and health
  • White fragility, white failure, white fear
  • A pigment of the imagination
  • White desire : remembering Robert Johnson
  • Lean on me : beyond identity politics
  • Finding families of resemblance : 'Frantic to join ... the Japanese army'"
  • California : the Mississippi of the 1990s
  • Change the focus and reverse the hypnosis : learning from New Orleans
  • White lives, white lies.

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