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" As the unmarked category against which difference is constructed, whiteness never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations.4 To identify, analyze, and oppose the destructive consequences... "
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from ... - Page 1
by George Lipsitz - 2009 - 312 pages
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Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era

Michael Bibby - History - 1996 - 276 pages
..."White," Screen 29 (Fall 1988): 44, 45. Also see George Lipsitz, who quotes Dwyer and follows by stating, "As the unmarked category against which difference...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations." "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the 'White' Problem...
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Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures ...

Sheng-mei Ma, Ma (Sheng-mei.) - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 202 pages
...Richard Dyer argues, "white power secures its dominance by seeming not to be anything in particular." As the unmarked category against which difference...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations. (369) When that racial difference is created, it is rarely neutral and disinterested, but...
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Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance

Timothy B. Powell - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...Lipsitz notes that "Whiteness is everywhere in American culture, but it is very hard to see," because "as the unmarked category against which difference...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations."20 Likewise, Peter L. McLaren observes, in "White Terror and Oppositional Agency," that...
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Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values Among Postmodern Peoples

Jim Norwine, Jonathan M. Smith - History - 2000 - 302 pages
...appears exceedingly narrow. It rests on a tacit "whiteness," a perspective, George Lipsitz writes, that "never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role as a organizing principle in social and cultural relations."44 By hoping to experience "America's Immigrant...
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The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-esteem

Richard L. Allen - Psychology - 2001 - 236 pages
...recently referred to simply as "whiteness" (Ignatiev 6c Garvey, 1996), has been characterized as an "unmarked category against which difference is constructed;...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations" (Lipsitz, 1998, p. 1). In a classic piece on black identity, or what was called race consciousness,...
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Race-ing Masculinity: Identity in Contemporary U.S. Men's Writing

John Christopher Cunningham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 132 pages
...Investment in Whiteness, George Lipsitz also notes the hidden nature of normative White racial identity: "As the unmarked category against which difference...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations." "Whiteness," Lipsitz remarks, "is everywhere in US culture, but it is very hard to see."i...
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After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and Through the Nation

Antoinette Burton - History - 2003 - 390 pages
...because of a long history of racist oppression and mendacious stereotyping. George Lipsitz observes that "whiteness never has to speak its name, never has...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations."" This authority is by no means timeless, however. It is instead a product of the racialized...
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Landscape and Race in the United States

Richard H. Schein - Social Science - 2006 - 270 pages
...sense of identity, and I must turn away with disgust and revulsion. 18. As Lipsitz (1995) pointed out, "As the unmarked category against which difference...as an organizing principle in social and cultural relations." On the reproduction of structural privileges for whites, see Lipsitz (1998). On the spaces...
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Inside British Jazz: Crossing Borders of Race, Nation and Class

Hilary Moore - Music - 2007 - 180 pages
...the archetypal whiteness of much past and present scholarship is 'the unmarked category ... [that] never has to speak its name, never has to acknowledge its role' (1998, 3). If I dismiss the claim of white musicians that 'race is not an issue' on the British jazz...
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