George Lipsitz is a Black Studies scholar and professor in the Department of
Black studies
Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of ...
at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, and the author of over half a dozen books, including ''The Possessive Investment in Whiteness''. He is a leading 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'', ''Class & Culture in Cold War America'' and ''How Racism Takes Place.''
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
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, and co-edits the ''American Crossroads'' series for
University of California Press
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.
Lipsitz is Jewish.
See also
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Whiteness studies
References
External links
''Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture''* http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/images/The_Bitter_But_Beautiful_Struggle.mp3
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Critical race theorists
Black studies scholars
White culture
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