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Title: The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics by George Lipsitz, George Lipstiz ISBN: 1-56639-635-2 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: More of the same...
Comment: After being assigned a reading list about racial relations in the US, I began the process of reading each book. This book was at the top of that list.
As usual, I was disappointed. So far, the two books I have read on race relations follow the same pattern. They create their own strawman to knock down by creating their own social, or racial constructs that they can proceed to debunk. Each author creates their own definition of "whiteness" - which isn't even the same, and then proceeds to select examples that tries to prove their own constructed definitions. Useless.
Rating: 1
Summary: What country do you think you live in?
Comment: the "founding fathers" never intended to have non-whites integrated at the same level as whites, why do i continuously hear all this whining about preconceived entitlements? if you're not white, too bad, and you're lucky enough to live here because all your people wanna be here. this is the best place in the world for any minority and you know it...
Rating: 5
Summary: Racism In A Nutshell
Comment: How often have you walked around thinking about an issue, thinking how helpful it would be if you could only articulate those thoughts? And, one day, you pick up a book and find that the author has spoken for you, clearly defined those issues and provided a history that explains the causes of your disquietude? George Lipsitz has done just that in "The Possessive Investment In Whiteness... ." Why is affirmative action under attack and by whom? How do Euro-Americans benefit from skin privilege whether they are racist or not? Why is California "the Mississippi of the 1990s"? What was the real agenda of Mr. Bakke in launching a legal battle against "reverse racism"? Who was Bill Moore? What are the roles of Clarence Thomas and Ward Callender in claiming and perpetuating a conservative agenda that supports skin privilege? Lipsitz answers these questions and more. While Lipsitz speaks from a decidedly liberal stance, he supports each of his contentions with a shopping list of facts to support them.
This is a valuable contribution to American discourse on the issue of race and how it affects, still, American society. More importantly, it is one of the few books I have read that seems intended for the education of Euro-Americans who, as Lipsitz makes clear, are also victims of racism and can only benefit from its elimination as well as the elimination of benefits based solely or largely, and certainly historically, upon skin privilege. But how can institutionalized racism that permeates the entire history of this country be fought? The first step must be to recognize what the possessive investment in whiteness is and why and how it is perpetuated. Lipsitz has offered a remarkable primer for that first step to every American citizen who longs for the day that we will all be, truly, just Americans who are judged only by the content of our character.
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Title: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger ISBN: 1859842402 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Irene J. Nexica, Eric Klinenberg, Matt Wray ISBN: 0822327406 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson ISBN: 0674951913 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control (Vol 1 (Paper)) by Theodore W. Allen ISBN: 086091660X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White by David R. Roediger ISBN: 0805211144 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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