The possessive investment in whiteness
Subtitle: how white people profit from identity politics
By: George Lipsitz
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780585371443
Subjects: Racism; Prejudices; Identity politics; White people; Race identity; Race relations; Social policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Discrimination & Race Relations; Minority Studies; Whites
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bill Moore's body; title: The possessive investment in whiteness; title: Law and order : civil rights laws and white privilege; title: Immigrant labor and identity politics; title: Whiteness and war; title: How whiteness works : inheritance, wealth, and health; title: White desire : remembering Robert Johnson; title: Lean on me : beyond identity politics; title: "Swing low, sweet Cadillac" : antiblack racism and white identity; title: "Frantic to join ... the Japanese army" : beyond the black-white binary; title: California : the Mississippi of the 1990's; title: Change the focus and reverse the hypnosis : learning from New Orleans.