The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics
If you like book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
-
-
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature e…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white voters they promise to help.
Buy this book on Amazon
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans a… -
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, …
Buy this book on Amazon -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation
Buy this book on Amazon
Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader thro… -
-
Enrique's Journey
A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
Buy this book on Amazon
In this astonishing true story,… -
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam.
Buy this book on Amazon
The success of Irby's career has taken her to new heights. She fields calls wit… -
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Are Prisons Obsolete?
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Women, Race & Class
From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women.
Buy this book on Amazon
"Angela Davis is herse… -
Diving Into the Wreck
"I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail." These provocative poems move with the power of…
Buy this book on Amazon -
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. …
Buy this book on Amazon -
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing abo…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Queer Art of Failure
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known ac…
Buy this book on Amazon