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Bezig met laden... The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Editiondoor George Lipsitz
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HTML: George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 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. In 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. As vital as it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is an unflinching but necessary look at white supremacy. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Lipsitz writes, “Whitness has a value in our society. Its value originates not in the wisdom of white home buyers or the improvements they have made on their properties, but from the ways in which patterns of bad faith and nonenforcement of antidiscrimination laws have enabled the beneficiaries of past and present discrimination to protect their gains and pass them on the succeeding generations” (pg. 33). Discussing the memory of war, Lipsitz writes, “The deployment of memories about World War II as a ‘good war’ also rested on nostalgia for a preintegration America, when segregation in the military meant that most war heroes were white, while de jure and de facto segregation on the home front channeled the fruits and benefits of victory disproportionately to white citizens” (pg. 76). Turning to neoconservatives’ like Charles Murray and Dinesh D’Souza, he writes, “Their efforts to portray the victims of racism as the beneficiaries of unearned privileges given to them because of their race hide the history of the possessive investment in whiteness and invert the history of racial politics in the United States” (pg. 96). He continues, “Whitness does its work in the United States as a structured advantage, as a built-in bias that prevents hard-working people from securing just rewards for their labor and ingenuity. It produces unfair gains and unjust rewards for all whites, although not uniformly and equally. As a matter of justice, whites should be interested in abolishing it, in relinquishing the unfair gains and unearned enrichments that flow from it” (pg. 106). Further, “The neoconservatism of our time has not only widened the gap between rich and poor, between whites and communitites of color, but it has also encouraged the growth of a vigilante mentality, as violent and sadistic as the crimes it purports to oppose” (pg. 145). Viewing the consumption of minority-produced as a form of romanticism, Lipsitz writes, “This romanticism contributes to the possessive investment in whiteness by maintaining the illusion that individual whites can appropriate aspects of African American experience for their own benefit without having to acknowledge the factors that gave African Americans and European Americans widely divergent opportunities and life chances” (pg. 120). ( )