George Lipsitz is an American Studies scholar and professor in the Department of
Black Studies 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
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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
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White culture in North America
Critical race theory