A book by George Lipsitz analyzes the "possessive investment" in this quality.
A book by George Lipsitz analyzes the "possessive investment" in this quality. Theodore Allen wrote a two-volume history about the "invention" of this quality, whose evolution amongst the American working class is traced in a David Roediger book named for its "wages." Leading scholars in the study of this quality include Ruth Frankenburg and Noel Ignatiev, who advocates abolishing it. Peggy McIntosh analyzed the positive consequences of possessing this quality in her essay "Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." Karen Brodkin wrote a book about how Jews obtained this quality after World War II. Many Americans were unable to possess the privileges conferred by this quality because of the one-drop rule. For 10 points, name this quality which many people of color acquired by passing.
A book by George Lipsitz analyzes the "possessive investment" in this quality.
whiteness [or being white; or having white privilege]