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

Synopsis

The Twentieth Anniversary Edition Of This Book About How White People Profit From Identity Politics Includes New Chapters And Extended Discussions Of Political Whiteness, Vigilante Violence, Police Misconduct And White Flight, White Fright, White Fragility And White Fear-- The Changing Same : Introduction To The Twentieth Anniversary Edition -- Bill Moore's Body -- The Possessive Investment In Whiteness -- Law And Order : Civil Rights Laws And White Privilege -- Immigrant Labor And Identity Politics -- Whiteness And War -- How Whiteness Works : Inheritance, Wealth, And Health -- White Fragility, White Failure, White Fear -- A Pigment Of The Imagination -- White Desire : Remembering Robert Johnson -- Lean On Me : Beyond Identity Politics -- Finding Families Of Resemblance : 'frantic To Join . . . The Japanese Army' -- California : The Mmississippi Of The 1990s -- Change The Focus And Reverse The Hypnosis : Learning From New Orleans -- White Lives, White Lies. George Lipsitz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.