The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition by George Lipsitz

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition

George Lipsitz

292 pages paperback 1998

5 editions

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

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