ISBN:
9781592134939
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (313 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights law
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; INTRODUCTION: Bill Moore's Body; 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness; 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege; 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics; 4. Whiteness and War; 5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health; 6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson; 7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics; 8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity; 9. "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary; 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New OrleansNOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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