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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness How White People Profit from Identity Politics Revised and Expanded Edition
Author: George Lipsitz
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 accumulatio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781592134939
ISBN-10: 1592134939
Publication Date: 3/28/2006
Pages: 320
Edition: Rev Exp
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Publisher: Temple University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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