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 The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

, 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 Whiteness studies is the study of the structures that produce white privilege, the examination of what whiteness is when analyzed as a race, a culture, and a source of systemic racism, and the exploration of other social phenomena generated by ...

. 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 The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is a social justice think tank focused on issues of gender and diversity. AAPF seeks to build bridges between arts, activism, and the academy in order to address structural inequality and systemic oppressio ...

and is on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance. He edits the ''Critical American Series'' for

University of Minnesota Press The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota. It had annual revenues of just over $8 million in fiscal year 2018. Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its book ...

, and co-edits the ''American Crossroads'' series for

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. Lipsitz is Jewish.

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''Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture''
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