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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.
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 book probes into the social and material rewards that accrue to "the possessive investment in whiteness." Lipsitz sums up the ways that public policy has virtually excluded communities of color from everything that American society defines as desirable: first-rate education, decent housing, asset accumulation, political power, social status, satisfying work, and even the power to shape and narrate their own history. White supremacy is no thing of the past, no fringe movement. It is a pervasive and pernicious system that restricts the political and cultural agency of African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latinos every day. Unearned and unacknowledged, race-based advantages, not greater merit or a superior work ethic, account for white privilege.
Lipsitz's ultimate point is not to condemn all white people as racists but to challenge everyone to begin a principled examination of personal actions and political commitments. Exposing the system of unfairness is not enough. People of all groups-but especially white people because they benefit from that system-have to work toward eradicating the rewards of whiteness.
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In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz probes into the ways that race determines life chances and structures experience in the contemporary United States
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
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- The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen on 4 pages
- Being White: Stories of Race and Racism by Karyn McKinney in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (New Americanists) by Gayle Wald in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question by George Yancy on page 53, page 105, and page 170
- Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Console-ing Passions) by Lynn Spigel in Front Matter, and page 174