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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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Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2006 |
Edizione: | Rev. and expanded ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.800973 |
Soggetto topico: | Racism - United States |
Prejudices - United States | |
Whites - Race identity - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
United States Social policy 1993- | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The possessive investment in whiteness ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-38304-X |
9786611383046 | |
1-59213-495-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814214603321 |
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