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The possessive investment in Whiteness : how White people profit from identity politics / George Lipsitz.

Van Pelt Library E184.A1 L56 2018
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lipsitz, George, author.
Contributor:
Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Identity politics.
United States--Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
United States--Social policy--1993-.
Social policy.
Racism--United States.
Racism.
Prejudices--United States.
Prejudices.
Identity politics--United States.
White people--Race identity--United States.
White people.
White people--Race identity.
Physical Description:
xxix, 359 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:
Twentieth anniversary edition.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2018.
Summary:
"The twentieth anniversary edition of this book about how white people profit from identity politics includes new chapters and extended discussions of political whiteness, vigilante violence, police misconduct and white flight, white fright, white fragility and white fear"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The changing same : introduction to the twentieth anniversary edition
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 fragility, white failure, white fear
A pigment of the imagination
White desire : remembering Robert Johnson
Lean on me : beyond identity politics
Finding families of resemblance : 'Frantic to join . . . the Japanese army'"
California : the Mmississippi of the 1990s
Change the focus and reverse the hypnosis : learning from New Orleans
White lives, white lies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Lipsitz, George, author. Possessive investment in whiteness
ISBN:
9781439916384
1439916381
9781439916391
143991639X
OCLC:
1037891917

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