{"product_id":"the-possessive-investment-in-whiteness-how-white-people-profit-from-identity-politics-paperback","title":"The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Lipsitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Lipsitz's classic book \u003ci\u003eThe Possessive Investment in Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updated statistics; as well as analyses of the enduring importance of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti-immigrant mobilizations; police assaults on Black women, the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray; the legacy of Obama and the emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes; and the ways in which white fear, white fragility, and white failure have become drivers of a new ethno-nationalism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs vital as it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Possessive Investment in Whiteness\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching but necessary look at white supremacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Lipsitz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eHow Racism Takes Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition\u003c\/i\u003e (both Temple). Lipsitz serves as Chair of the boards of Directors of the African American Policy Forum and of the Woodstock Institute and is senior editor of the comparative and relational ethnic studies journal \u003ci\u003eKALFOU\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988417904941,"sku":"9781439916391","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/eDBJb1M5M2Y4ckJ3Q29LSGpGWHEwdz09.webp?v=1776214231","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-possessive-investment-in-whiteness-how-white-people-profit-from-identity-politics-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}