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The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit From Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipsitz is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Possessive Investment in Whiteness : How White People Profit From Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition about?
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 feelings and acts of individual prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produced unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for members of aggrieved racial groups. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, L
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- Author
- George Lipsitz
- Publisher
- Temple University Press Chicago Distribution Center [distributor
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786611383046
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, History
- Rating
- 4.22 / 5 (50 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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