The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: An Investment Itself? “Race is a cultural construct‚ but one with deadly social causes and consequences” (Lipsitz 2). In his book‚ The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics‚ George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to “invest in whiteness‚ to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources‚ power‚ and opportunity (Lipsitz vii).” Lipsitz’s book gives a substantial
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SUMMERY: In Victorian London‚ Dr. Frederick Treves with the London Hospital comes across a circus sideshow attraction run by a man named Bytes called "The Elephant Man". In actuality‚ the creature on display is indeed a man‚ twenty-one year old John Merrick who has several physical deformities‚ including an oversized and disfigured skull‚ and oversized and disfigured right shoulder. Brutish Bytes‚ his "owner"‚ only wants whatever he can get economically by presenting Merrick as a freak. Treves manages
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Furthermore‚ racial groups have been formed by superior and dominant powers in a society that uses the concept to create limitations and oppression to those that are not from the pure race. In Frantz Fanon’s writing “The Fact of Blackness”‚ he focuses on the issue of race and identity by telling a story of a colored man and his oppression by the white race. The white race has always been superior as Fanon mentions also in his writing that the “white world‚ the only honorable one” (260). It is clear
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influence the perspectives and personality procedures of the novel’s principle characters. Sara Ahmed’s origination of "Whiteness‚" as a methods for arranging on the planet‚ is talked about and utilized as an interpretive device when perusing July’s People. Specifically‚ the progressing and incomplete history of articles and bodies spoken to in the novel and how these identify with whiteness and the procedure of "othering" is investigated. Besides‚ it is focused on how in the development of personality
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Linda Lonseth Undermining the Otherness of Other: Caliban and Aaron Much of the representation of the ‘Other’ in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus aligns with the Early Modern dictum that women be chaste‚ silent and obedient (Hull 31‚ 173‚ 195). In the interests of maintaining the social order‚ those that exhibited basic differences in skin colour‚ nationality or cultural values would likely have been expected to remain in a subordinate position within the hierarchy by adhering to
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Understanding my Whiteness: A Study of my Socialization Growing up‚ still unsocialized to the world‚ I was unaware how large of a role my appearance would play throughout my life. I was also mostly unaware of what race was‚ what race I was categorized in‚ and why I was placed in a certain category. This was mostly due to the lack of language I had to think about these concepts. Once words such as “black‚” “privilege‚” and “socialized” became apart of my vocabulary‚ I started to understand how the
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Ferguson‚ and sought justice for segregation‚ bodily protections‚ and equal protections under the law. Race played a major role in women’s so called “freedom” in society‚ and in their protections by the legal system. In Elizabeth Hale’s Making Whiteness‚ Hale discusses how white supremacy was created as a social movement in response to an increase of black freedom. In her book‚ Hale demonstrates the difference in punishment for violating a black woman’s body versus a white woman’s. During the early
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Matthew Frye Jacobson’s introduction of his book Whiteness of a Difference Color delves into the topic of race from a very different perspective than what one would might expect. Instead of discussing the topic about people of color‚ he writes about the history of racial classification of whites in America along with how the conception and perception of race is always changing. The first example he provides us is with a Gentle women and the debate over Jews’ racial identity‚ although they are white
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David R. Roediger’s‚ Working Towards Whiteness is a book examining how the “new immigrants” to America became white during what he called the “long early twentieth century”. The book is divided into three parts‚ part one talking about what was classed as whiteness and where American’s placed new immigrants on a social level. Part two talks about the “in between” stage‚ what it was like to live in between the racial binaries which were around in the early twentieth century. Lastly part three talks
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Gays ’‚ Lesbians ’‚ and Bisexuals ’ Roles of "Otherness" in Dominant Culture Despite no visible differences such as those of ethnicity and race‚ homosexuals and bisexuals are still commonly defined as "other" in our society. Based solely on their sexual orientation‚ gays‚ lesbians‚ and bisexuals are continually targeted by intolerance‚ ignorance‚ and segregation because of their role as an "other" in the dominant culture. This "otherness" is a departure in characteristics and behavior from
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