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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

By George Lipsitz

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness Books

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

By George Lipsitz

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George Lipsitz’s classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages. In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updated statistics; as well as analyses of the enduring importance of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti-immigrant mobilizations; police assaults on Black women, the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray; the legacy of Obama and the emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes; and the ways in which white fear, white fragility, and white failure have become drivers of a new ethno-nationalism.  As vital as it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is an unflinching but necessary look at white supremacy.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
448
Release Date:
2018-07-13
Publication Date:
2018-07-13
Publisher:
Temple University Press,U.S.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
143991639X
ISBN13:
9781439916391
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
548 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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