The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded EditionTemple University Press, 2009. aug. 21. - 312 oldal 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 accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town. |
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3 Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics | 48 |
4 Whiteness and War | 70 |
Inheritance Wealth and Health | 105 |
Remembering Robert Johnson | 118 |
Beyond Identity Politics | 140 |
Antiblack Racism and White Identity | 159 |
Beyond the BlackWhite Binary | 185 |
The Mississippi of the 1990s | 212 |
Learning from New Orleans | 237 |
NOTES | 249 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 277 |
INDEX | 279 |
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79. oldal - With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, our security environment has undergone profound transformation.
165. oldal - Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction.
26. oldal - A Realtor should never be instrumental in introducing into a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality, or any individuals whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in that neighborhood.
22. oldal - If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
216. oldal - The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.
251. oldal - Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States...
165. oldal - I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.
1. oldal - As the unmarked category against which difference is constructed, whiteness never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations.4 To identify, analyze, and oppose the destructive consequences of whiteness, we need what Walter Benjamin called "presence of mind.
76. oldal - What does all this mean for every one of us ? It means opportunity for all the glorious young manhood of the republic — the most virile, ambitious, impatient, militant manhood the world has ever seen.
41. oldal - Some men leave their sons money [wrote a union member to the New York Times], some large investments, some business connections, and some a profession. I have only one worthwhile thing to give: my trade. I hope to follow a centuries-old tradition and sponsor my sons for an apprenticeship. For this simple father's wish it is said that I discriminate against Negroes. Don't all of us discriminate? Which of us ... will not choose a son over all others?