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George Lipsitz

George Lipsitz is a Black Studies scholar and professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books, including The Possessive Investment in Whiteness, and has studied 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.

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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.345 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.36789101112

Lipsitz served as chair of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum1314 and was on the board of the National Fair Housing Alliance.315 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.817 Lipsitz is Jewish.1819

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  1. "George Lipsitz | Global Latinidades". The Global Latinidades Center. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  2. Estrada, Andrea (12 September 2018). "'The Possessive Investment in Whiteness'". The Current. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  3. "George Lipsitz". Department of Black Studies. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  4. Graebner, William (1 September 1992). "The Politics of Culture". American Studies. 33 (2): 121–124. doi:10.1353/amsj.v33i2.2867. ISSN 0026-3079.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Rowe, John Carlos, ed. (2010). A Concise Companion to American Studies. Wiley. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4051-0924-6.
  9. Cooperman, Jeannette (17 October 2014). "The story of segregation in St. Louis". St. Louis Magazine. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Guilbault, Jocelyne (Summer 1997). "Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place". American Music. 15 (2): 238–242. doi:10.2307/3052734.
  13. 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.
  14. "BOARD OF DIRECTORS". AAPF. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  15. "Board of Directors". NFHA. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  16. "Critical American Studies". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  17. "American Crossroads". University of California Press. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  18. "Conversation with Professor George Lipsitz". Americana: The Journal Of American Popular Culture 1900-Present. Spring 2002. Retrieved 1 July 2026.
  19. 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.
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