The possessive investment in whiteness : how white people profit from identity politics / George Lipsitz.

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Taking a look at white supremacy, this work argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. This work shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lipsitz, George
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Subjects:
Racism > United States.
Prejudices > United States.
Identity politics > United States.
White people > Race identity > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social policy > 1993-
Prejudices.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social policy.
White people > Race identity.
United States.
Since 1993
Online Access:
Table of contents only (Table of contents) (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xx, 292 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Bill Moore's body
  • The possessive investment in whiteness
  • Law and order : civil rights laws and White privilege
  • Immigrant labor and identity politics
  • Whiteness and war
  • How Whiteness works : inheritance, wealth, and health
  • White desire : remembering Robert Johnson
  • Lean on me : beyond identity politics
  • "Swing low, sweet Cadillac" : antiblack racism and White identity
  • "Frantic to join ... the Japanese army" : beyond the Black-White binary
  • California : the Mississippi of the 1990s
  • Change the focus and reverse the hypnosis : learning from New Orleans.