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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Author: 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 white...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781566396349
ISBN-10: 1566396344
Publication Date: 6/1998
Pages: 274
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Publisher: Temple University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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