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George Lipsitz is a Black Studies scholar and professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] He is the author of several books, including The Possessive Investment in Whiteness,[2] and has studied social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular culture, and whiteness studies.[3][4][5] 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.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
Lipsitz served as chair of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum[13][14] and was on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance.[3][15] He edits the Critical American Studies series for University of Minnesota Press,[16] and co-edits the American Crossroads series for University of California Press with Earl Lewis, George J. Sánchez, Laura Briggs, and Nikhil Pal Singh.[8][17] Lipsitz is Jewish.[18][19]
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[edit]- ↑ "George Lipsitz | Global Latinidades". The Global Latinidades Center. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ Estrada, Andrea (12 September 2018). "'The Possessive Investment in Whiteness'". The Current. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 "George Lipsitz". Department of Black Studies. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ Graebner, William (1 September 1992). "The Politics of Culture". American Studies. 33 (2): 121–124. doi:10.1353/amsj.v33i2.2867. ISSN 0026-3079.
- ↑ Kolchin, Peter (2009). "Whiteness Studies I: The new history of race in America". Journal de la société des américanistes. 95 (1): 117–143. doi:10.4000/jsa.10769. ISSN 0037-9174.
- ↑ Brown, Bill (1 December 2003). "American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From". American Literature. 75 (4): 903–906. doi:10.1215/00029831-75-4-903. ISSN 0002-9831.
- ↑ Grosser, David (1983). "George Lipsitz, Class and Culture in Cold War America, 'A Rainbow at Midnight.' New York: J. F. Bergin, 1981, 254 pp". International Labor and Working-Class History. 24: 96–99. doi:10.1017/S0147547900008280. ISSN 0147-5479.
- 1 2 Rowe, John Carlos, ed. (2010). A Concise Companion to American Studies. Wiley. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4051-0924-6.
- ↑ Cooperman, Jeannette (17 October 2014). "The story of segregation in St. Louis". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ Madden, Sean C. (January 1996). "Book Reviews: Rainbow At Midnight. Labor and Culture in the 1940's, by George Lipsitz". Pennsylvania History. 63 (1): 140–141. ISSN 2153-2109.
- ↑ Riess, Steven A. (December 1992). "The Sidewalks of St. Louis: People, and Politics in an American City". The Journal of American History. 79 (3): 1126–1127. doi:10.2307/2080814.
- ↑ Guilbault, Jocelyne (Summer 1997). "Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place". American Music. 15 (2): 238–242. doi:10.2307/3052734.
- ↑ Dines, Gail; McMahon Humez, Jean (2010). Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader. SAGE Publications. p. 667. ISBN 978-1-4129-7441-7.
- ↑ "BOARD OF DIRECTORS". AAPF. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "Board of Directors". NFHA. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "Critical American Studies". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "American Crossroads". University of California Press. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ "Conversation with Professor George Lipsitz". Americana: The Journal Of American Popular Culture 1900-Present. Spring 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
- ↑ Brown, Bill (December 2003). "American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From". American Literature. 75 (4): 903–906. doi:10.1215/00029831-75-4-903. ISSN 0002-9831.