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Author:
Lipsitz, George, author.
Title:
The possessive investment in Whiteness : how White people profit from identity politics / George Lipsitz.
Edition:
Twentieth anniversary edition.
Publisher:
Temple University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xxix, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Racism--United States.
Prejudices--United States.
Identity politics--United States.
Whites--Race identity--United States.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Social policy--1993-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Mmississippi of the 1990s -- Change the focus and reverse the hypnosis : learning from New Orleans -- White lives, white lies.
Summary:
"The twentieth anniversary edition of this book about how white people profit from identity politics includes new chapters and extended discussions of political whiteness, vigilante violence, police misconduct and white flight, white fright, white fragility and white fear"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
143991639X
9781439916391
1439916381
9781439916384
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1037891917
LCCN:
2017056015
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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