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Autore |
Lipsitz George |
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Titolo |
The possessive investment in whiteness : how white people profit from identity politics / / George Lipsitz |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-38304-X |
9786611383046 |
1-59213-495-5 |
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Edizione |
[Rev. and expanded ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Racism - United States |
Prejudices - United States |
Whites - Race identity - United States |
United States Race relations |
United States Social policy 1993- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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": Anti-black Racism and White Identity; 9. "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary; 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990's |
11. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New Orleans NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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