The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded EditionTemple University Press, 2009 M08 21 - 312 páginas 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 laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town. |
Contenido
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Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege | 24 |
3 Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics | 48 |
4 Whiteness and War | 70 |
Inheritance Wealth and Health | 105 |
Remembering Robert Johnson | 118 |
Beyond Identity Politics | 140 |
Antiblack Racism and White Identity | 159 |
Beyond the BlackWhite Binary | 185 |
The Mississippi of the 1990s | 212 |
Learning from New Orleans | 237 |
NOTES | 249 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 277 |
279 | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from ... George Lipsitz Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from ... George Lipsitz Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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Página 1 - As the unmarked category against which difference is constructed, whiteness never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations.4 To identify, analyze, and oppose the destructive consequences of whiteness, we need what Walter Benjamin called "presence of mind.