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020 $a9781592134953 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
037 $bOverDrive, Inc.$nhttp://www.overdrive.com
100 1 $aLipsitz, George $q(George Lipsitz).
245 14 $aThe Possessive Investment in Whiteness$h[electronic resource].
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bTemple University Press,$c2009.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aIn 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.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bPhiladelphia :$cTemple University Press,$d2009.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1393 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1393 KB).
653 #0 $aHistory
653 #0 $aMulti-Cultural
653 #0 $aNonfiction
653 #0 $aScholarly
655 7 $aElectronic books.$2local
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