The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics

George Lipsitz

296 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 b...

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