03236nam 2200661 a 450 991045157680332120220208172220.01-281-38304-X97866113830461-59213-495-5(CKB)1000000000475528(EBL)298893(SSID)ssj0000224776(PQKBManifestationID)11910951(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224776(PQKBWorkID)10210803(PQKB)11489393(MiAaPQ)EBC298893(Au-PeEL)EBL298893(CaPaEBR)ebr10229940(CaONFJC)MIL138304(OCoLC)290579943(EXLCZ)99100000000047552820051013d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe possessive investment in whiteness[electronic resource] how white people profit from identity politics /George LipsitzRev. and expanded ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20061 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-494-7 1-59213-493-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index.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's11. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New Orleans NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEXIn 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 lawRacismUnited StatesPrejudicesUnited StatesWhite peopleRace identityUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsUnited StatesSocial policy1993-Electronic books.RacismPrejudicesWhite peopleRace identity305.800973Lipsitz George698437MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451576803321The possessive investment in whiteness1915589UNINA