The Possessive Investment in Whiteness How White People Profit from Identity Politics 20th Edition by George Lipsitz ISBN 9781439916407 1439916403

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ISBN 10: 1439916403

ISBN 13: 9781439916407

Author: George Lipsitz

This book argues that public policies and private biases work in tandem to foster a “possessive investment in whiteness,” which underpins the racial hierarchies within our society. The concept of possessive investment is meant both literally and metaphorically. Whiteness carries tangible value: it grants individuals various advantages, such as profits from property secured in discriminatory housing markets, unequal educational opportunities for children of different races, access to exclusive job networks that benefit the relatives and friends of those who have gained the most from past and present racial discrimination, and particularly through the generational transfer of inherited wealth that continues to pass down the rewards of racial inequity. I argue that white Americans are encouraged to maintain their investment in whiteness, holding on to an identity that grants them resources, power, and opportunity. While whiteness is, in reality, a delusion—a cultural and scientific fiction with no basis in biology or anthropology—it remains a social construct, an identity with significant, real-world consequences on the distribution of wealth, status, power, and opportunity.

Table of contents:

1 The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 
2 Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 
3 Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 
4 Whiteness and War 
5 How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health 
6 White Fragility, White Failure, White Fear 
7 A Pigment of the Imagination 
8 White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson 
9 Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics 
10 Finding Families of Resemblance: ‘‘Frantic to Join . . .  
the Japanese Army’’ 
11 California: The Mississippi of the 1990s 
12 Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning  
from New Orleans 
13 White Lives, White Lies

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