George Lipsitz: 3 books
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites...
Midnight at the Barrelhouse
The Johnny Otis Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Considered by many to be the godfather of R&B, Johnny Otis—musician, producer, artist, entrepreneur, pastor, disc jockey, writer, and tireless fighter for racial equality—has had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a...
The Fierce Urgency of Now
Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights struggles and discourses. The authors acknowledge that at first glance improvisation and rights seem to...