02195cam a2200241 4500 468420779 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781592134953 1592134955 B001KW03Y0 Amazon c0d8bcf4-9073-4b4f-88e0-985ed4ed3fab OverDrive (Reserve ID) 261723 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness [Libby eBook] : How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition. Temple University Press, 2009. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1394kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03.