George Lipsitz
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American scholar
George Lipsitz's Degrees
- PhD American Studies University of California, San Diego
- Masters American Studies University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors American Studies University of California, Santa Cruz
Why Is George Lipsitz Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, George Lipsitz is an American Studies scholar and professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 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.
George Lipsitz's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (1999) (1617)
- Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (1990) (608)
- Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place. (1994) (380)
- The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the "White" Problem in American Studies (1995) (340)
- The Racialization of Space and the Spatialization of Race (2007) (263)
- Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (2013) (189)
- Rainbow at Midnight: LABOR AND CULTURE IN THE 1940S (1994) (151)
- How Racism Takes Place (2011) (134)
- The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation. (1996) (122)
- Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place (1997) (112)
- Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots (1998) (109)
- American studies in a moment of danger (2001) (101)
- Learning from New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship (2006) (89)
- A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition (1990) (76)
- Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, and American Studies (1990) (66)
- The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network Television Programs (1986) (63)
- The Struggle for Hegemony (1988) (52)
- Prelude “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation (2013) (48)
- Seeing Race Again (2019) (44)
- American Studies as Accompaniment (2013) (41)
- Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans (1988) (41)
- WHERE IS THE LOVE (2005) (39)
- Cruising around the Historical Bloc: Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Los Angeles (1986) (39)
- Sports Stadia and Urban Development: a Tale of Three Cities (1984) (36)
- Our America (2005) (32)
- Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music (2007) (30)
- Class and Culture in Cold War America: "A Rainbow at Midnight" (1983) (27)
- Insubordinate Spaces for Intemperate Times: Countering the Pedagogies of Neoliberalism (2013) (24)
- Walleye warriors and white identities: Native Americans’ treaty rights, composite identities and social movements (2008) (22)
- The Fierce Urgency of Now (2020) (21)
- From Plessy to Ferguson (2015) (21)
- Abolition democracy and global justice (2004) (19)
- "Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today": American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements (1998) (19)
- ‘Everybody's Lonesome for Somebody’: age, the body and experience in the music of Hank Williams (1990) (19)
- Learning from Los Angeles: Another One Rides the Bus (2004) (18)
- World Cities and World Beat: Low-Wage Labor and Transnational Culture (1999) (17)
- Songs of the Unsung: The Darby Hicks History of Jazz (2004) (15)
- SDS (1973) (14)
- Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice (2019) (12)
- “Frantic to Join … the Japanese Army”: Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia-Pacific War (2001) (11)
- The Role of Race and its Articulations for Asian Pacific Americans (2000) (11)
- “This ain't no sideshow”: Historians and media studies (1988) (11)
- A Life In The Struggle (1995) (10)
- A transformative pedagogy for a decolonial world (2018) (10)
- The Sidewalks of St. Louis: Places, People, and Politics in an American City (1991) (9)
- Getting and Spending: Consumer Spending as State Project: Yesterday's Solutions and Today's Problems (1998) (9)
- Midnight at the Barrelhouse: Why Ethnomusicology Matters Now (2011) (9)
- Foreword: Midnight's Children: Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization (2005) (9)
- Remembering Robert Johnson: Romance and reality (1997) (8)
- Carnival and Theater: Plebian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England. By Michael D. Bristol (New York and London: Methuen, 1985. pp. 237) (1987) (8)
- Constituted by a Series of Contestations: Critical Race Theory as a Social Movement Commentary: Critical Race Theory: A Commemoration: Response (2011) (8)
- Imagining America: Dutch Youth and Its Sense of Place. (1995) (7)
- “Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac”: White Supremacy, Antiblack Racism, and the New Historicism (1995) (7)
- The changing same (2018) (7)
- New Orleans in the World and the World in New Orleans (2011) (7)
- Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation (review) (1998) (7)
- Introduction: A New Beginning (2014) (6)
- Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story (2010) (6)
- 3. Breaking the Chains and Steering the Ship: How Activism Can Help Change Teaching and Scholarship (2019) (6)
- North Webster: A Photographic History of a Black Community (1993) (5)
- Midnight at the Barrelhouse (2010) (5)
- Turning Hegemony On Its Head: The Insurgent Knowledge of Américo Paredes (2012) (5)
- Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties (2003) (5)
- Improvised Listening: Opening Statements Listening to the Lambs (2014) (5)
- The white 2K problem (2000) (5)
- Innovations in Health Equity and Health Philanthropy (2016) (4)
- The Sounds of Silence: (2019) (4)
- The White Possessive and Whiteness Studies (2019) (4)
- Generations of Struggle: Panel Discussion on Protest before, during, and after the Ferguson Rebellion (2016) (4)
- Play Misty for Me (2010) (4)
- The Culture of War (2006) (4)
- The Politics and Pedagogy of Popular Culture in Contemporary Textbooks (1992) (3)
- Cultural Theory, Dialogue, and American Cultural History (2008) (3)
- Academic politics and social change (2018) (3)
- Herbert Biberman and the Art of Subjectivity (1977) (3)
- America at the crossroads: An introduction (2000) (3)
- “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now (2001) (3)
- Symposium on Woods's Development Arrested (2004) (3)
- Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity (2016) (2)
- “What's Race Got to Do with It?” Remembering Ike Turner (1931–2007) (2009) (2)
- No Shining City on a Hill: American Studies and the Problem of Place (1999) (2)
- The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and the Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1950s to the 1980s. By Alan Wald. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. 440 pp. Hardbound, $32.50; Softbound, $12.95. (1988) (2)
- Theorizing Cultural Memory: Totalizing Recall? (1991) (2)
- “The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Improvisation, Social Practice, and Togetherness-in-Difference (2013) (2)
- Women's Words: The Feminist Practice of Oral History. Edited by Sherna Gluck and Daphne Patai. New York: Routledge, 1991. 256 pp. Hardbound, $39.50; Softbound, $14.95. (1992) (2)
- The Historical Study of Popular Culture (2016) (2)
- Monuments and Memories@@@Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930@@@War Memorials as Political Landscape: The American Experience and Beyond@@@Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments@@@Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (1991) (2)
- Challenging Neoliberal Education at the Grass Roots: Students Who Lead, Not Students Who Leave (2015) (2)
- Magnetic North : Canadian Experimental Video (2000) (2)
- New Times and New Identities: Solidarities of Sameness and Dynamics of Difference (2004) (1)
- Blue money (1987) (1)
- Afterword: Racially Writing the Republic and Racially Righting the Republic (2009) (1)
- Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Faye Ginsburg , Anna Lowenhaupt TsingLabor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America. Paula Rabinowitz (1994) (1)
- Interview with George Lipsitz (2012) (1)
- Race as a Relational Theory: (2019) (1)
- Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles. STEVEN LOZA (1995) (1)
- No Ordinary Time: Indigenous Dispossession and Slavery Unwilling to Die (2018) (1)
- Breaking the Silence: The Fugees and the Score1 (2006) (1)
- Chance, Risk, Security: Approaches to Uncertainty in American Literature. An Introduction (2016) (1)
- 1. Race as a Relational Theory: A Roundtable Discussion (2019) (1)
- The bands of tomorrow are here today: the proud, progressive, and postmodern sounds of Las Tres and Goddess 13 (1994) (1)
- Book Reviews (1997) (1)
- No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject. Martha NochimsonScreen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Marta Meszaros. Catherine PortugesMake Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America. Lynn Spigel (1995) (1)
- “The Drum Major Instinct”: American Religion Since 1945 (1983) (1)
- The Karma of Brown Folk (review) (2000) (1)
- A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition.@@@Freedom Summer.@@@When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory (1989) (1)
- Remembering Johnny Otis, 1921–2012 (2012) (1)
- Communists, Canneries, and Cultures of Opposition (1992) (1)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- Ethnic Images in Film (1993) (0)
- Reveling in the Rubble: Where is the Love? (2017) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies (2010) (0)
- The Logic of “Illogical” Opposition: (2019) (0)
- Conjuring Black Freedom (2020) (0)
- Work and Sing: A History of Occupational and Labor Union Songs in the United States (review) (2012) (0)
- Editorial Board (2012) (0)
- Introduction: The Fire and Flames of Funkahuatl (2019) (0)
- Book review: The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism, and Post-Civil Rights Politics (2013) (0)
- “The Apotheosis of Glory”: Surveying Social History (1994) (0)
- 5. Separate and unequal: big government conservatism and the racial state (2020) (0)
- Tricia Rose Interviewed by George Lipsitz (2014) (0)
- Foreword: Accompaniment as a Way of Life (2019) (0)
- ‘‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements (2020) (0)
- Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century (review) (2011) (0)
- Art to Find the Pulse of the People: We Know This Place (2013) (0)
- That’s My Blood Down There (2017) (0)
- The Poetics of Place and Expressions of Oppositional Memory (2020) (0)
- From Robespierre to the Ryman: Hank Williams and History: Musique, histoire, democratie (1995) (0)
- Inhabiting Cultures as a Way to Other Worlds (2018) (0)
- Ethnic Studies of Blended Musical Identities (2021) (0)
- Central Avenue Breakdown (2010) (0)
- Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination (2015) (0)
- Improvisation and Encounter: Rights in the Key of Rifference (2013) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2005) (0)
- "Frantic to Join ... the Japanese Army": The Asia Pacific War in the Lives of African American Soldiers and Civilians (2020) (0)
- All Night Long (2010) (0)
- Double Crossing Blues (2010) (0)
- The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s (2019) (0)
- Time Passages: Simply Red? or Simply Read? Response to Collins (1991) (0)
- The Watts Breakaway (2010) (0)
- Carmen Teresa Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 336pp. $74.50 cloth; $24.05 paper. (2002) (0)
- Sounding Truth to Power: Improvisation, Black Mobility, and Resources for Hope (2013) (0)
- Problem of Place (2016) (0)
- Book Reviewers (1998) (0)
- DILEMMAS OF BESET NATIONHOOD: (2020) (0)
- Songs That Never End: A Film by Yehuda Sharim (2021) (0)
- debted to Beth Bailey and Ruth Salvaggio for their generous mentoring and friendship. I also benefited from teaching two graduate seminars on race at unm, and I thank participants in them for a series of enlightening (2017) (0)
- A Power that Shakes the World: Fifty Years of Popular Culture (2020) (0)
- FOREWORD:: Accompaniment as a Way of Life (2019) (0)
- How History Happens and Why Culture Counts: Twenty Years after Becoming Mexican American (2013) (0)
- Willie and the Hand Jive (2010) (0)
- Making Black Lives Matter: Conjuring and Creative Place-Making in an Age of Austerity (2017) (0)
- Leah N. Gordon. From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 257 pp. Hardcover $45.00. (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (2009) (0)
- Listen to the Lambs (2010) (0)
- Graham Lock and David Murray (eds.), The Hearing Eye: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Visual Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, $24.95). Pp. xv+366. isbn 978 0 19 534051 8. (2010) (0)
- Book Review (2000) (0)
- Conjuring Sacred Space in Gulf Coast Cities (2018) (0)
- Improvising Community: Rights and Improvisation as Encounter Narratives (2013) (0)
- Based primarily on secondary sources and on a select group of inter (1990) (0)
- Improvisation, Social Movements, and Rights in New Orleans (2013) (0)
- Amy Sue Bix. Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs? America's Debate Over Technological Unemployment 1929–1981. (Studies in Industry and Society.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, with the assistance of the Hagley Museum and Library. 2000. Pp. x, 376. $45.00 (2001) (0)
- The Ferguson Conjuncture: Why the Humanities Matter Now (2016) (0)
- Where's the love (2005) (0)
- Editorial board (2000) (0)
- Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture: George Lipsitz (2002) (0)
- "We Know What Time It Is:" Youth Culture in the 90s. (1993) (0)
- Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity . By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. (2008) (0)
- Hearing the Community in Its Own Voice: Clyde Woods, 1957–2011 (2014) (0)
- "Time Has Come Today": Why Sociology Matters Now (2016) (0)
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