George Lipsitz
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George Lipsitz is an American Studies Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
and the author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness. He is a lead scholar in social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular culture, and Whiteness Studies. In addition to The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, he has written Midnight at the Barrelhouse, Footsteps in the Dark, A Life in the Struggle, Time Passages, Dangerous Crossroads, American Studies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight, Sidewalks of St. Louis, and Class & Culture in Cold War America.
Lipsitz serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African American Policy Forum
and is on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance. He edits the Critical American Series for University of Minnesota Press
, and co-edits the American Crossroads series for University of California Press
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University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
and the author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness. He is a lead scholar in social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular culture, and Whiteness Studies. In addition to The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, he has written Midnight at the Barrelhouse, Footsteps in the Dark, A Life in the Struggle, Time Passages, Dangerous Crossroads, American Studies in a Moment of Danger, Rainbow at Midnight, Sidewalks of St. Louis, and Class & Culture in Cold War America.
Lipsitz serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African American Policy Forum
African American Policy Forum
The African American Policy Forum is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1996, as a media-monitoring think tank and information clearing house focused on issues of gender and diversity...
and is on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance. He edits the Critical American Series for University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its books in social and cultural thought, critical theory, race and ethnic studies, urbanism, feminist criticism, and media...
, and co-edits the American Crossroads series for University of California Press
University of California Press
University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
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External links
- http://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/lipsitz.html
- http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2002/lipsitz.htm
- http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/images/The_Bitter_But_Beautiful_Struggle.mp3