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

Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Bill Moore's Body -- Introduction to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition: The Changing Same -- 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness -- 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege -- 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics -- 4. Whiteness and War -- 5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health -- 6. White Fragility, White Failure, White Fear -- 7. A Pigment of the Imagination -- 8. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson -- 9. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics -- 10. Finding Families of Resemblance: ''Frantic to Join . . .the Japanese Army'' -- 11. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s -- 12. Change the Focus and Reverse the Hypnosis: Learning from New Orleans -- 13. White Lives, White Lies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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