The Possessive Investment In Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

Attacking the common view that whiteness is a meaningless category of identity, Lipsitz shows that public policy and private prejudice insure that whites wind up on top of the social hierarchy. Passionately and clearly written, this wide-ranging book probes into the social and material rewards that accrue to "the possessive investment in whiteness. " Lipsitz sums up the ways that public policy has virtually excluded communities of color from everything that American society defines as desirable: first-rate education, decent housing, asset accumulation, political power, social status, satisfying work, and even the power to shape and narrate their own history. White supremacy is no thing of the past, no fringe movement. It is a pervasive and pernicious system that restricts the political and cultural agency of African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latinos every day. This 1998 Temple University Press Paperback is in fair condition. Annotated; Owner's Name inside. Annotated in pen; dog-eared; owner's details have been twinked out on first page.

ISBN: 9781566396356 SKU: 1576210 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.